KOLKATA: Three persons awarded death sentence for a murder and incarcerated for the past 11 years were acquitted on Thursday by Calcutta high court, which ruled that the prosecution had failed to conclusively establish their hand in the killing of a 28-year-old woman, whose mutilated body was found at Sealdah railway station in 2014.A division…
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee leads a TMC rally in Kolkata Wednesday to protest the ‘targeting’ of Bengali-speaking people in BJP states KOLKATA: Calcutta high court asked the Union government on Wednesday to file an affidavit explaining the rationale behind the “sudden” countrywide raids in June targeting Bengali-speaking people as potentially illegal Bangladeshi migrants.“What were the…
Kolkata, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday expressed concern over the “disturbing reports” regarding the state of affairs at the South Calcutta Law College, where a first-year student was allegedly gang-raped by an alumnus and two of her seniors recently.Bose is also the chancellor of the Calcutta University to which the institute was…
The Calcutta high court on Thursday directed Bengal government to file affidavit on progress of probe in law college gang rape case.The division bench, led by Justice Soumen Sen, instructed the state authorities to submit the investigation’s case diary during the subsequent hearing scheduled for July 10.The high court received three Public Interest Litigations (PILs)…
Calcutta HC reserves order on central forces in violence-hit Murshidabad, TMC claims situation under control NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court on Thursday reserved its order on the continuation of the deployment of central armed police forces (CAPF) in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, which has recently seen violent clashes.The court also suggested forming a three-member…
Calcutta RG Kar’s hospital case: कोलकाता के एक मनोचिकित्सक ने सोमवार को दावा किया कि आरजी कर अस्पताल में बलात्कार एवं हत्या के मामले की पीड़िता विभिन्न कारणों से गंभीर मानसिक तनाव में थी और उसने पिछले साल 9 अगस्त को अपनी मौत से करीब एक महीने पहले पेशेवर मदद मांगी थी. मनोचिकित्सक मोहित रणदीप…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court bench led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna on Monday permitted the parents of the RG Kar medical college rape-murder victim to pursue their writ petition before a single-judge bench of the Calcutta high court.They are seeking a further investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into their daughter’s homicidal death,…
NEW DELHI: The five-member SC collegium led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna Thursday recommended Justice Joymalya Bagchi, a judge of Calcutta HC, for appointment as a judge of SC, which has two vacancies in its sanctioned strength of 34 judges. The collegium, also comprising Justices B R Gavai, Surya Kant, A S Oka and Vikram Nath,…
NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court has admitted an appeal filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging the trial court’s decision to sentence Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar medical college and hospital rape-murder case, to life imprisonment without parole. However, the court refused to admit a separate appeal by the…
Calcutta University B.Com result 2024: Calcutta University has announced the B.Com results 2024 for the four/three year semester-II exam. Candidates who have taken the exam can now access their results online by visiting the official website, exametc.com. Aspirants will be able to access the result by entering their roll number, and logging in to the…