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Monday, December 22, 2025
TopicCalcutta High Court

Topic: Calcutta High Court

Calcutta HC orders house arrest of four TMC leaders held in Narada sting tapes case

The division bench judges disagreed over vacating a stay given by them on bail granted by a special CBI court to Subrata Mukherjee, Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee.

Calcutta HC defers hearing on Narada case ‘due to unavoidable circumstances’

A division bench is hearing a CBI application to transfer the jailed TMC leaders' bail applications from the Special CBI Court to the High Court citing unprecedented mob pressures.

TMC leaders to stay in jail as Calcutta HC adjourns hearing in Narada case till Thursday

The high court Monday night stayed the lower court's decision to grant bail to the four leaders, arrested and charge-sheeted by the CBI in the Narada sting case.

Calcutta HC stays bail of TMC ministers and leaders arrested by CBI in Narada sting case

The division bench said it deemed it appropriate to stay the special court's order and direct that the accused person shall be treated to be in judicial custody till further orders.

Calcutta HC directs authorities to strictly enforce EC ban on rallies on 2 May

A restriction of a maximum of two persons has been placed on the winning party for collecting the certificate, the commission told the division bench.

‘Want to raise surrogate child’, says man who moved HC seeking custody of dead son’s sperm

On 19 January, the court dismissed man's plea seeking to collect the preserved sperm of the dead son. The judge said only the deceased's wife has the right over it.

Father doesn’t have ‘fundamental right’ to dead son’s sperm — What Calcutta HC ruling says

Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya dismisses man's plea seeking custody of his deceased son's sperm, & notes that deceased's wife is the only living person with any right to it. Read full judgement here.

Only widow has right to husband’s sperm, says Calcutta High Court

Dismissing a man's plea seeking to collect the frozen sperm of dead son, the HC said the person doesn't have any 'fundamental right' to it merely by the fact of being his father.

No one can interfere if an adult marries, converts as per her choice, says Calcutta HC

The court was hearing a petition filed by the father of a 19-year-old woman, who he claimed had been unduly influenced by a man of a different religion.

Important to proceed against ‘uniformed criminals’, Calcutta HC orders probe against cop

The Calcutta HC made the observation while directing West Bengal's DGP to institute an inquiry against an investigating officer in a case of forged cheque.

On Camera

Bondi Beach, Bangladesh lynching — once again, the elephant in the room will be side-stepped

Perhaps there is need for a moral ‘jihad’ against those indulging in the promulgation of terror in the name of religion.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Turkiye delivers second MILGEM-class corvette Khaibar to Pakistan Navy, two others in making

Contract for construction of four MILGEM-class ships was signed in 2018. PNS Bedir is to be delivered by June 2026, while PNS Tariq is due for delivery in first quarter of 2027.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.