Justice Gangopadhyay accused Justice Soumen Sen of "acting clearly for some political party in this State" and intimidating another judge in favour of a political leader in Bengal.
A conflict between two benches of Calcutta HC over whether CBI should probe an alleged fake caste certificate scam in Bengal boiled over Thursday, with the advocate general joining the jousting judges in a courtroom spectacle involving political insinuations and personal jibes.
Recently, Calcutta High Court judge, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay stirred controversy when he ignored and declared illegal an order of a division bench presided over by Justice Soumen Sen, who had.
The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the unprecedented differences arisen between a division bench and a single judge bench of the Calcutta High Court over a CBI probe into alleged irregularities pertaining to admissions in .