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Kolkata: Celebrated as a crusader against corruption by his supporters and criticized for overstepping his brief by detractors, Calcutta High Court judge Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay has found himself at the centre of a legal showdown with the Supreme Court following his controversial TV interview about West Bengals School Service Recruitment (SSC) case.. Several leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), including former education minister Partha Chatterjee, have been implicated in this high-profile case.. In the first of a dramatic series of events Friday, Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud ordered acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High CourtT.S. Sivagnanamto reassign the case involving alleged irregularities in the appointments of staff in West Bengal government-run schools from Justice Gangopadhyays bench...
The top court orders came in the wake of a petition filed by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arguing that Justice Gangopadhyay made statements against him in an interview last September to Bengagli TV news channel ABP Ananda..
Last week, the top court also notedthat the judge had no business speaking to the media about the case.. Prior to the said interview, Justice Gangopadhyay had ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged illegal appointment of non-teaching and teaching staff by the West Bengal Central School Service Commission (SSC) and the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education..
Then, on April 13, he asked the CBI to bring Abhishek under the ambit of investigation in the case.. This Monday, Justice Sivagnanam reportedly asked Justice Gangopadhyay to return the files related to two cases against Abhishek in the SSC case.. While the Trinamool Congress has celebrated the Supreme Courts actions, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called it unfortunate...
As he left the premises of the Calcutta High Court late Friday night, Justice Gangopadhyay told mediapersons that he had seen the Supreme Courts order, but did not intend to back down.I am waiting for legal advice.But.
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