Settle contractual workers' unpaid dues in 5 weeks: High Court to BSNL
India | November 25, 2019 20:55 ISTThe Calcutta High Court on Monday directed state-owned telecom major BSNL Ltd to settle unpaid wages of contractual workers within five weeks.
The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed state-owned telecom major BSNL Ltd to settle unpaid wages of contractual workers within five weeks.
A city-based electronic cigarette wholesale company on Thursday moved the Calcutta High Court challenging the Centre's decision to ban such alternative smoking devices, terming it is arbitrary, discriminatory, excessive and drastic.
Security has been tightened at the Calcutta High Court, after a letter threatened of multiple bomb blasts inside its buildings on September 30, Registrar General Rabindranath Samanta said on Thursday. The letter claimed to have been written by one Hardarshan Singh Nagpal, said that he and his son will trigger several bomb blasts inside the court complex, Samanta said.
The court also rejected Kumar's prayer for quashing of a CBI notice that sought his appearance for questioning in the case.
Tharoor's counsel Ritzu Ghoshal moved the petition ex-parte challenging the warrant against him, claiming that that the summons issued by the chief metropolitan magistrate was faulty and that he was not a resident within its jurisdiction.
At the commencement of the hearing on the Bongaon matter, Justice Chattopadhyay orally directed that reporters would not be allowed to be present in her courtroom, during a hearing of cases, till further orders.
The protection from arrest and coercive action, which was to expire on Monday, was extended by Justice Madhumati Mitra for a week or until further orders. The court also adjourned till Tuesday hearing on Kumar's prayer for quashing a notice to him in May by the CBI to appear before it, for assisting the investigation into the Saradha chit fund case.
The Calcutta High Court has directed a man to pay Rs 1 lakh as compensation to his wife for causing distress and mental agony and said determination of "compensation should not be outcome of guesses".
Directing that the judge be reinstated immediately, a division bench comprising Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Suvra Ghosh ordered that "costs assessed at Rs 1 lakh to be paid by the high court to the appellant."
Wife of Trinamool Congress (TMC) Abhishek Banerjee was issued a summons by Customs department. The summons was temporarily suspended by Calcutta High Court.
Considering the urgency as the woman is 25 weeks pregnant, Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty directed the West Bengal Additional Advocate General to submit the report of the board on Monday.
The petitioner claimed before the court of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty that the tests done during various stages of her pregnancy showed that the brain of the foetus is underdeveloped.
The West Bengal government had refused to allow the event over the possibility of communal tension.
The IPRS moved the high court claiming copyright over the songs and prayed for restraining the telecom firm from using those for its value-added services such as caller ringback tones and mobile apps like Vodafone Play, Idea Music and Idea Movies & TV.
The Collegium has also recommened the names of justices Ramesh Ranganathan, A S Bopanna and Vijai Kumar Bist for appointment as chief justices of the high courts of Uttarakhand, Gauhati and Sikkim respectively.
The court's direction came after hearing the petitioners and respondents and taking stock of the deployment of armed forces on the polling day by the state government.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra took note of the fact that almost 17,000 candidates have won the panchayat polls unopposed and directed the SEC not to declare them as winners
The court passed the order on an appeal filed by the CPI(M) and directed that it pertained to those candidates, whose names appeared in the list submitted by the appellant before it.
The High Court refused to interfere in the schedule announced by the Commission on a petition claiming that notification should provide all dates from nomination to that of result and prayed for quashing of the notification.
Kolkata High Court orders fresh dates for West Bengal panchayat polls.
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