On Friday (June 25), the West Bengal Bar Council wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana, searching for the elimination of Justice Rajesh Bindal from the put up of the Acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court. The letter was signed by advocate Ashok Kumar Deb, who serves because the Trinamool Congress MLA and the Chairman of the West Bengal Bar Council.
Reportedly, the Bar Council alleged that Justice Bindal was ‘biased’ in direction of the BJP and had ‘improperly’ listed and heard excessive profile instances equivalent to Narada Scam, the election petition of Mamata Banerjee, and the case pertaining to medication wastage in West Bengal. “Justice Bindal is a partial, unfair and biased judge whose continuance at High Court interferes with fair and impartial dispensation of justice,” it claimed.
While highlighting the Narada sting case, the letter claimed that the choice of the Calcutta High Court to reject the interim bail of 4 TMC leaders was a sign of Justice Bindal’s alleged bias. It additional said that the choice of the High Court to overrule the CBI particular Court order even compelled Justice Sinha to sentence the act within the type of a letter.
Screengrab of the letter through Utkarsh Anand
Ashok Kumar Deb, advocate and TMC MLA, alleged that there have been photos of Justice Rajesh Bindal and West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankar. He added, “The picture coupled with the conduct of Justice Bindal seem to suggest that he is doing the bidding of the Governor at Calcutta High Court.” In his letter, he accused the Acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court of permitting repeated requests by CBI to file affidavits however denying related requests from Mamata Banerjee and State Law Minister Moloy Ghatak.
The West Bengal Bar Council additional alleged that the social media posts of Justice Bindal seemed that he was a ‘BJP’s man.’ It accused the Acting Chief Justice of transferring the listening to of the election petition of Mamata Banerjee from Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharya to a different ‘biased BJP man’ Justice Kausik Chanda. The letter concluded, “We request Your Lordship to take immediate steps for removal of Justice Rajesh Bindal as judge of Calcutta High Court so that the majesty and sanctity of Calcutta High Court is upheld.”
It should be talked about that Justice Bindal was appointed as a Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2006. Later in December 2020, he was appointed because the Chief Justice of the High Court for Jammu and Kashmir and Union territory of Ladakh. He was then transferred to the Calcutta High Court in January this yr and appointed because the Acting Chief Justice of the Court on April 28, 2021.
Mamata Banerjee calls Judge ‘BJP member’ to forged doubts on Judiciary
Recently, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has fired off a letter to the Acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court Rajesh Bindal objecting to the itemizing of her petition earlier than Justice Kaushik Chanda. The petition pertains to the re-evaluation of the voting leads to the Nandigram constituency, the place she misplaced elections to her rival Suvendu Adhikari.
The letter alleged that Justice Kaushik Chanda was an ‘active member of BJP’ and that the petition of Mamata Banerjee can have political ramifications. Counsel Sanjay Basu urged the Court to reassign the case to a different Judge to resolve the apprehension of bias towards the West Bengal CM. He mentioned that the case must be reassigned to make sure public confidence within the Judiciary in order that it didn’t seem that Justice Kaushik Chanda was a ‘Judge in his own case.’