Calcutta High Court reserves its order on Mamata’s recusal application
The Hindu
West Bengal CM has sought election petition filed in the Nandigram results to be assigned to another Bench.
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday reserved its order on a recusal application filed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urging that the election petition filed in the Nandigram results be assigned to another Bench. Ms. Banerjee virtually participated in the hearing at the Calcutta High Court that went on for some hours. Senior advocate A.M. Singhvi, who appeared for the Chief Minister, sought recusal of Justice Kausik Chanda on grounds of his association with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a lawyer. Reading from the recusal application filed by Ms. Banerjee, Dr. Singhvi said that posts on various social media platforms suggested that Justice Chanda had a “close, pecuniary, personal, professional and ideological relationship with the BJP” and “close relationship with prominent leaders such as Dilip Ghosh and Tathagata Roy”.More Related News