Advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava, who filed PIL in the Supreme Court and sought an independent probe in the Sandeshkhali incident, said on Thursday that it was surprising that after court allowed the CBI and ED to arrest Sheikh Shahjahan, within a few hours he was arrested by the West Bengal p
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday allowed the six-member, independent fact-finding team of the Centre, led by a former judge of the Patna High Court, to go to battleground Sandeshkhali on Friday.
"He (Abhishek Banerjee) is lying which he should not, he is a Member of Parliament. Why Calcutta High Court will shield a criminal? Torture against women is not a trivial offence. The High Court cannot save him. No court or judge can save him. He has lied, saying that the police could not ar
HM Rehman said, "It was peaceful here today. There was disturbance at only one place. A few women were sloganeering; they were spoken to. No further arrests were made today. In connection with yesterday's incident, 10 people were arrested and presented before the court."
"Today he (Nirapada Sardar) was granted interim bail by the Honourable Division bench primarily on the ground that while the FIR was lodged on February 9, the complaint relating to which the FIR was made was registered on February 10...This shows how grossly the police authorities have acted
In a blistering attack on the ruling TMC after it blamed legal processes for the delay in the arrest of absconding strongman and Sandeshkhali accused Sheikh Shahjahan, Congress state chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday said laying the blame on the Calcutta High Court in the matter amounte
"We are confident that Sheikh Shahjahan will be arrested within seven days," TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said in a joint press conference with state Minister Bratya Basu on Monday.
A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra was told by senior advocate Kapil Sibal that the matter has been adjourned nine times.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, National Commission for Women and the Calcutta High Court came down heavily on the TMC government over the Sandeshkhali violence issue, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the situation in West Bengal and asserted th
Addressing an accompanying media crew on a visit to battleground Sandeshkhali on Tuesday, the Leader of the Opposition in the Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari said the people in the area expressed satisfaction with the order of the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam, grantin
The Supreme Court on Monday observed that the Calcutta High Court has taken cognisance in the matter relating to the alleged sexual assault of women living in village Sandeshkhali in West Bengal and refused to entertain a plea seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation or Special