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Calcutta High Court’s special Saturday sitting sees near empty courtroom for state matters
Calcutta High Court’s special Saturday sitting sees near empty courtroom for state matters
The Calcutta High Court sat on Saturday, August 1, to make up for a working day lost when Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty declared July 6 a holiday for Syama Prasad Mookerjee's…
The Calcutta High Court sat on Saturday, August 1, to make up for a working day lost when Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty declared July 6 a holiday for Syama Prasad Mookerjee's 125th birth anniversary, The Times of India reported. The court had earlier set aside 210 working days and 61 holidays for the year, apart from regular weekends, and the Bar Association had passed a resolution urging judges not to pass ex-parte orders because many lawyers might not attend. That played out in the courtroom of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya, who read out all 130 listed matters and recorded Not Today against each after no state counsel appeared, closing the sitting at 11.10 am. In a separate courtroom, activist Sujato Bhadra filed a fresh public interest litigation questioning the encounter killing of Prabhas Mondal, the main accused in the Baruipur case, which was listed for hearing on August 18 alongside similar pending petitions.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The thin turnout Justice Bhattacharyya recorded case by case is itself the story's clearest evidence that the special Saturday sitting achieved little of its intended purpose, and it corroborates the Bar Association's warning rather than contradicting it. The Prabhas Mondal petition raises a separate and more serious question, an alleged encounter killing of a criminal suspect, that this report only notes was listed rather than argued. The August 18 hearing on that petition is the concrete date worth watching for how the court responds.
Source: The Times of India
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