Key Points
He was also involved in an unsavoury incident with fellow judges, prompting intervention from the Supreme Court...
The unsavoury incident began with Gangopadhyay ordering a CBI probe on a writ petition last September by an MBBS aspirant who contended that students who did not belong to the Scheduled Tribes category were securing admissions in the state's medical colleges using fake certificates..
While becoming the first sitting judge of a higher court to join a political party by resigning from active duty, Gangopadhyay has raised questions on judicial ethics and code of conduct for judges..
Gangopadhyay had frequent run-ins with the government in several cases earlier too, prominent among them the teachers' recruitment case, where he ordered a CBI probe..
"West Bengal has become such a state where no one can secure or even retain a state government job without paying money," he had said in his verdict in the teacher's recruitment case in August 2022..
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