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Justices Rajarshi Bharadwaj and Sudip Deb record grave dissatisfaction with the Asset Disposal Committee, void its hotel management contracts and merge it into the Justice Talukdar Committee.
A market committee billed an oil manufacturer Rs 1.74 crore for producing rice bran oil. The Calcutta High Court strikes the product out of the Schedule and orders every rupee refunded with 12% interest in a fortnight.
A conviction for aggravated penetrative sexual assault is affirmed and the sentence trimmed to the time already served plus remission. Then the Division Bench turns to a line in the West Bengal scheme nobody had applied.
A borrower who told the bank in 2011 that it did not want the rest of its loan later said the loan was never fully disbursed. The Calcutta High Court finds nothing perverse in the Tribunal's refusal to accept that.
A Division Bench holds the plaintiffs had lost their leasehold interest before they sued, sets aside both the eviction decree and mesne profits, and annuls every step taken under them.
Squeezing a cigarette brand into the 15% a statutory warning leaves it sharpens the risk of deception, a Calcutta Division Bench holds, upholding an injunction protecting Gold Flake.
A witness produced at trial without any statement recorded under Section 161 CrPC deprives the defence of contradiction, the Court holds, and cannot anchor a conviction.
Justice Smita Das De declined to dismiss a Customs Act writ on alternative-remedy grounds, finding the revenue had invoked Section 292 IPC and Section 11 without any specific statutory or notification-based prohibition.
Justice Krishna Rao set aside a vacate order directing AITC to leave two floors at 9 Camac Street, finding the Director-in-Charge passed it without considering the petitioner's reply or conducting a fresh inspection.
Justice Uday Kumar quashed a Section 498A FIR against a husband whose wife had formally undertaken before Delhi's Dwarka Family Court to withdraw the complaint, then reneged after the divorce decree.
A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court dismissed an appeal against a single Judge's order directing the Sub-Divisional Officer, Canning to implement a demolition order for an unauthorised structure on Plot No. 404.
The Calcutta High Court directed the CBI to investigate 42 allegedly ownerless unauthorised multi-storied buildings in Kolkata, citing unexplained crore-rupee investments and potential threats to national security.
Justice Reetobroto Kumar Mitra held that a Single Judge's enquiry report is an administrative act, not a judicial order, and refused to refer the disciplinary writ to a Division Bench.
Dismissing a criminal revision, the Calcutta High Court upheld conviction under Section 401A of the KMC Act and ruled post-conviction regularisation cannot erase criminal liability.
A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court restored a suit challenging a 1948 gift deed, ruling that the limitation question required evidence and could not be decided on plaint averments alone.
Candidates who applied to SLST 2025 under OBC-A after the Division Bench invalidated their reserved categories in 2024 had no enforceable right to maintain the writ, the court held.
A Division Bench ruled Section 147 of the Railways Act, 1989 empowers railway authorities to evict occupants from railway land without following the West Bengal Public Premises Act, 1971.
A Second SLST 2025 aspirant who lacked an EWS certificate at the time of application could not later convert his candidature, Calcutta High Court held.
Justice Uday Kumar dismissed a Section 482 CrPC petition seeking to quash a chargesheet under Sections 498A and 376 IPC, holding that disputed chronological facts must go to trial.
Justice Raja Basu Chowdhury held that a divorced mother who remarried may seek alteration of her minor son's birth certificate, subject to the child's own option on attaining majority.
Justice Uday Kumar quashed proceedings against a Territorial Army soldier stationed in Imphal, certified absent on the date of the alleged Hooghly assault, while allowing trial to continue against his co-petitioner brother.
A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court affirmed eviction of a husband who failed to prove financial dependence on or ordinary residence with his deceased wife-tenant at the suit premises.
Justice Ajay Kumar Gupta quashed a criminal complaint alleging fraud and threat, finding it legally impossible after one accused had died years before the alleged offence.
The Calcutta High Court reversed a Railway Claims Tribunal order and held that the deceased Baptu Pal was a bona fide passenger, awarding his family Rs. 8 lakh with interest under Section 124A of the Railways Act 1989.
