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influenced police against registering an FIR against MLA Dilip Kumar
Sananda. The court said that "The (former) chief minister should not have interfered with the criminal justice system." Observing that the message conveyed in this case is "extremely shocking", the court directed that the fine
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had violated the fundamental rights of the Indian citizens. In the ADM Jabalpur vs
Shivakant Shukla case (1976). A bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ganguly took the view that the majority decision of a five-member Constitution Bench upholding the suspension of fundamental rights during
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for more than six years, he was transferred back to
Calcutta High Court on 1 August 2000. There he subsequently became the senior most puisne judge in March 2005. He functioned twice as acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court. Later he was transferred to the
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December 2012. He resigned from the West Bengal Human Rights Commission on 6 January 2014 after the Union Cabinet decided to make a Presidential Reference on 2 January 2014 to the Supreme Court for his removal.
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ordered that entire 156 hectares of land be given back to the robbed farmers. The government had acquired the land for "development" but was handed over to builders for making commercial and residential complexes. The bench imposed a fine of
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