Calcutta HC Sets Aside Single Judge s Order Reviving Criminal Proceedings Against Anisur Rehman, Remands Back Matter
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The Calcutta High Court has set aside an order of a Single Judge reviving criminal proceedings against erstwhile West Bengal BJP leader Anisur Rehman without granting him an opportunity of being heard and remanded the matter back for being considered afresh.
Rehman was arrested in the October 2019 murder of Trinamool Congress functionary Kurban Shah. Rehman had defected to the BJP from the TMC ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Reportedly, Rehman had recently announced his decision to quit the BJP and ally with the Trinamul again.
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NEW DELHI: Nearly 100 years after women were allowed to become lawyers, an association of women advocates moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking fair representation of women among high court judges and cited their abysmally low presence in constitutional courts.
The SC Women Lawyers Association, through advocate Sneha Kalita, said in the last 71 years of the SC’s functioning, only eight of the 247 judges were women. At present, Justice Indira Banerjee is the lone woman judge in the SC. The first one was Fathima Beevi, appointed in 1987.
Seeking to intervene in a pending case in which the SC is taking stock of delay in completion of the process for appointment of HC judges, the association said as against the sanctioned strength of 1,080 HC judges, only 661 were in place, including 73 women, who constituted 11% of HC judges. While Madras HC has 13 women judges, the highest among the HCs, there are no women judges in HCs in the states of Manipur, Meghalaya, Bihar, Tripura and
Lavalin case: A Francis moves SC seeking to adjourn today’s hearing
The High Court had found that three persons had no direct role in the making of the consultancy contracts or the supply contracts.
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KOCHI: Former power department joint secretary A Francis, who was acquitted in the SNC Lavalin case, approached the Supreme Court on Monday seeking to postpone the hearing in the case to produce additional documents. The application was filed through his counsel Prakash Ranjan Nayak. If the CBI counsel makes any statement regarding the case in the apex court on Tuesday, it will assume political significance as Kerala goes to the polls on the day.