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Justice Aryak Dutt found the 36-minute film titled How Modi and Adani Stole India to be a dramatised narrative asserting facts that no authority has found, and held that a repost after the Government had it disabled showed a want of good faith.
Justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Anuj Singh affirmed life sentences for a 1985 political killing, holding that separate attribution of every injury to each member of an unlawful assembly is not required.
Chief Justice Ravindra V. Ghuge and Justice Om Narayan Rai dismissed six writ petitions by the Department of Posts, holding the anomaly came from an ACP upgradation and not from the mode of recruitment.
Justices Rajarshi Bharadwaj and Sudip Deb held that the right to file a cross-objection in an income tax appeal to the High Court need not be spelt out, and declined to follow two decisions to the contrary.
Justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Anuj Singh dismissed the appeal, held the acquitted co-accused's case was distinct, and ordered the State to pay the parents ₹4,00,000 within seven days.
Justice Krishna Rao held that foreign exchange falls within the Revenue and Tax Laws group under the Court's own classification rules, released three writ petitions, and extended interim protection to 3 December 2026.
Justice Aniruddha Roy holds that defendants who were strangers to the previous suit cannot maintain an application under Section 10 of the Code, calls the applications frivolous, harassive and vexatious, and orders both suits to be tried analogously.
Justice Anuj Singh holds that a bare reading of the FIR discloses the ingredients of none of the eight offences invoked, that Section 332 of the Penal Code is not attracted where no petitioner is specifically accused of voluntarily causing hurt, and that the case falls within three of the Bhajan Lal categories.
A Division Bench of Justices Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya and Sandip Kumar De applied Order II Rule 2(3) and the doctrine of election, and set aside the transfer to the Commercial Division.
Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul) holds that Section 90 of the Industrial Relations Code bites only where a dispute is already pending, and sets aside the Conciliation Officer's orders.
Justice Om Narayan Rai refuses to disturb an arbitrator's order, holding that Article 227 will not be used to aid a joint venture member acting in bad faith against the venture's own claim.
The only solvent member of a construction joint venture went to the Calcutta High Court under Article 227 after the arbitrator refused it entry. Justice Om Narayan Rai finds bad faith, and a letter it never answered.
Justices Rajarshi Bharadwaj and Sudip Deb record grave dissatisfaction with the Asset Disposal Committee, void its hotel management contracts and merge it into the Justice Talukdar Committee.
A market committee billed an oil manufacturer Rs 1.74 crore for producing rice bran oil. The Calcutta High Court strikes the product out of the Schedule and orders every rupee refunded with 12% interest in a fortnight.
A conviction for aggravated penetrative sexual assault is affirmed and the sentence trimmed to the time already served plus remission. Then the Division Bench turns to a line in the West Bengal scheme nobody had applied.
A borrower who told the bank in 2011 that it did not want the rest of its loan later said the loan was never fully disbursed. The Calcutta High Court finds nothing perverse in the Tribunal's refusal to accept that.
A Division Bench holds the plaintiffs had lost their leasehold interest before they sued, sets aside both the eviction decree and mesne profits, and annuls every step taken under them.
Squeezing a cigarette brand into the 15% a statutory warning leaves it sharpens the risk of deception, a Calcutta Division Bench holds, upholding an injunction protecting Gold Flake.
A witness produced at trial without any statement recorded under Section 161 CrPC deprives the defence of contradiction, the Court holds, and cannot anchor a conviction.
Justice Smita Das De declined to dismiss a Customs Act writ on alternative-remedy grounds, finding the revenue had invoked Section 292 IPC and Section 11 without any specific statutory or notification-based prohibition.
Justice Krishna Rao set aside a vacate order directing AITC to leave two floors at 9 Camac Street, finding the Director-in-Charge passed it without considering the petitioner's reply or conducting a fresh inspection.
Justice Uday Kumar quashed a Section 498A FIR against a husband whose wife had formally undertaken before Delhi's Dwarka Family Court to withdraw the complaint, then reneged after the divorce decree.
