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Time of India
13-05-2025
- Time of India
Default bail not an option in drug cases: Calcutta HC
Kolkata: An accused in an NDPS (drug) case is not entitled to default bail if a charge sheet, even without a chemical report, is filed within time, the Calcutta High Court ruled while cancelling the interim bail granted to the legal point on whether the charge sheet without a chemical report in the NDPS case entitles the accused to statutory bail is pending before the Supreme Court. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now However, the division bench of justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi held that, as of today, the law is that a charge sheet is complete if the materials and evidence are before the court along with the charge sheet for the court to take cognisance. Filing a supplementary charge sheet to bring on the record the forensic laboratory test report is also permissible."Bombay and Guwahati HCs have held that a charge sheet without the chemical examination report does not entitle the accused to default bail. On the strength of the authorities presently subsisting, we are not in a position to return a finding that the charge sheet without the chemical examination report makes the investigation incomplete," the HC held. The four accused had applied for bail on March 26. The police had filed a charge sheet, and subsequently a supplementary charge sheet along with a chemical report. A commercial quantity of brown sugar was seized from the accused.
Time of India
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
West Bengal school jobs case: State education dept questions maintainability of contempt petition before Calcutta HC
At a Calcutta High Court hearing of a contempt petition pertaining to the Supreme Court order on the West Begnal SSC judgment, the West Bengal Education Department on April 23 questioned before the Calcutta High Court the maintainability of the petition that claimed non-compliance of its order regarding 26,000 school jobs in the state. The petitioners argued that the Education Department has not made available the OMR sheets for the 26,000 teaching and non-teaching positions that were affected by a Supreme Court ruling, which upheld the high court's decree with certain adjustments. During the proceedings, the education department's attorney addressed a division bench of justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi, asserting that due to the Supreme Court's alterations to some of the high court's directives, any contempt petition should be directed to the Supreme Court itself. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Belgaum: The price (& size) of these hearing aids might surprise you Learn More Undo Similarly, the legal representative for the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) also contested the legitimacy of bringing the contempt application before the high court based on the same rationale. On the other hand, the lawyer for the petitioners contended that it is indeed permissible to file a contempt petition in the high court since the Supreme Court's modifications did not significantly change the instructions initially set by the high court. Live Events The court has scheduled another hearing for the matter on the upcoming Monday. The petitioners expressed their grievances regarding the breach of the ruling issued by the high court on April 22, 2024, which was subsequently modified by the Supreme Court on April 3 and April 17 of this year. They filed the contempt petition in response to the claim that the OMR sheets stored on three hard disks have not been uploaded to the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) website "forthwith," as mandated by the division bench's order for public access.
