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From the policemen stationed at the gates to the lawyers bustling through the corridors and even the court clerks, everyone was discussing the same thing Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyays sudden resignation just five months shy of his scheduled retirement from the nations oldest high court...
A line of visitors stretched outside his chamber on the fifth floor of the centenary building fellow judges, lawyers, officials from the accounts department, and even citizens from central offices..
However, Mallick says that for lawyers to openly have certain political affiliations is fine because a lawyer is fighting cases for a client, but a judge is supposed to hear cases that are assigned to him in an unbiased manner as he is under oath...
A young lawyer, who has just launched his firm and had earlier worked in the office of the additional solicitor general, told ThePrint on condition of anonymity, Questions are being raised on whether the recent orders passed by the judge turned BJP politician were without bias or not..
I had said it before that he destroyed the dignity of Calcutta HC, remarked TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee at a news conference on Tuesday.Banerjee is a sitting Trinamool Congress MP, a senior advocate at the Calcutta High Court and has appeared for the State in the Supreme Court as well...
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