The Supreme Court held a special sitting at 8 pm on Friday to hear an unusual order passed by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the Calcutta High Court. Earlier in the day, Justice Gangopadhyay passed an order directing the Secretary General of the Supreme Court to provide certain documents related to an issue by midnight. In the 8 pm sitting of the Supreme Court, the apex court set aside the order of the Calcutta High Court judge and said that the transfer of the order from High Court judge to Supreme Court officer was not proper from the point of view of “judicial discipline”. . ,Justice Abhijeet Gangopadhyay had given the order

Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay is hearing cases of recruitment of primary teachers in West Bengal. On Friday, a bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud directed that the matter be transferred from Gangopadhyay’s bench as Gangopadhyay appeared in a television interview and spoke on the issue he is hearing. ,Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay asked the Supreme Court official to produce before him the translation of the interview

Following this order, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay passed a suo motu order asking the Supreme Court official to place before him the translation of the interview, which was placed before the CJI by midnight today Was. The interview was on a Bangla news channel. ,The matter is related to teachers’ recruitment scam

The Supreme Court bench has asked the Secretary General of the Supreme Court to immediately give a copy of its (Supreme Court) order to the Registrar General of the Calcutta High Court. During the hearing of the case, the Solicitor General present in the Supreme Court said that the respected judge (Justice Gangopadhyay) should not have given such an order. Let us tell you that Calcutta High Court judge Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay was hearing the case related to teachers’ recruitment scam. He had ordered a CBI inquiry in this matter at the beginning of the year 2023. Later, many high profile arrests took place in this case. In which the then TMC minister Partha Chatterjee was also involved.

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Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 10: 34 PM IST