Kolkata, November 15, : , The Calcutta High Court ordered Suvendu Adhikari to file an affidavit describing his petition to the Supreme Court to transfer the Nandigram election results case to another court in West Bengal. Adhikari will have to file the affidavit on or before November 29.Adhikari must file the affidavit by November 29.The next hearing is scheduled on December 1.The next hearing will be held on December 1.
Adhikari had moved a petition in the Supreme Court pleading to shift the Nandigram election result case to any other court outside West Bengal.Adhikari had filed a petition to the Supreme Court asking for the transfer of the Nandigram election results case to another court in West Bengal.The Calcutta High Court, which was supposed to hear the case on Monday, asked Adhikari to file an affidavit on the petition filed in the Supreme Court, which said that he has no faith in the Calcutta High Court.
Calcutta High Court was scheduled to hear the case Monday.Adhikari was asked by the Supreme Court to file an affidavit regarding the petition filed at the Supreme Court.
Adhikari stated that he had no faith in Calcutta High Court.The court will decide whether the case should be shifted in the next hearing on December 1.In the December 1 hearing, the court will decide if the case should be transferred.
The Nandigram election result case got involved in a legal tangle after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee filed a petition challenging the result alleging manipulation after she was defeated by Adhikari by a margin of 1,965 votes.
After Chief Minister Mamata Bangerjee lost to Adhikari by 1,965 votes, the Nandigram election results case became entangled in legal complications.The case was initially assigned to the bench of Justice Kaushik Chanda but Banerjee filed a separate petition requesting to change the judge as he was associated with the BJP legal cell before he was elevated as a judge.
Although the case was originally assigned to Justice Kaushik Chanda, Banerjee filed a separate petition to have the judge changed as he was a member of the BJP legal cells before he was made a judge.
However, Chanda recused himself from hearing the petition, but imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on the Chief Minister for “the manner in which she levelled charges against the judge”.
Chanda, however, resigned from the hearing of the petition and imposed a Rs 5 lakh fine on the Chief Minister for the “manner in which she brought up charges against the judge”.
The case was reassigned to the bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar by then acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal.
By Rajesh Bindal, the Chief Justice at the time, Justice Shampa Sarka was assigned the case to his bench.The case came up at Sarkar’s bench in August, but was adjourned till November 15.The case was brought up by Sarkar’s bench on August 15, but was delayed until November 15.
A day after Chanda recused himself from the case, Adhikari had moved the Supreme Court pleading to shift the case from the Calcutta High Court to the high court of any other state.Adhikari moved the Supreme Court asking for the transfer of the case from Calcutta High Court, a day after Chanda had withdrawn himself.
According to top sources, the single judge bench of Justice Hima Kohli may hear the case.
Sources claim that Justice Hima Kohli could be the sole judge.
The Calcutta High Court has asked the Election Commission to preserve all the documents relating to the election and results in Nandigram.
The Election Commission has been asked by the Calcutta High Court to keep all documents related to the election and the results in Nandigram.
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