Kolkata: Kaushik Chanda, an additional judge of the Calcutta High Court, has been appointed as a permanent judge by the Supreme Court Collegium.
Kaushik Chanda’s confirmation was previously opposed by the Head of the West Bengal Minister Mamata Banerjee for alleged proximity to BJP.
Justice Chanda has been on July 7 soaking itself from hearing the petition by the Chairman of the Trinamool Congress who challenged the election of opposition leaders in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari from Nandigram after he expressed his fear by the judge.
The colleague led by the Chair of the Judge and Ramana met on August 17 and agreed to the proposal.
The statement was uploaded on the Apex Court website on Thursday.
In addition to Ramana, Judge Lalit and A M Khanwilkar are part of the three members who make decisions in connection with the appointment of the High Court Judge.
Looking for the assignment of his election petition to another, Advice Mamata Banerjee has also written to the Chairperson of the Calcutta High Court Prosecutor’s Office, by saying the Minister of Chief “has objected to the confirmation of Judge Hon’ble as a permanent judge from Hon.
‘High Court in Calcutta”, and with Thus, it captures that there is a possibility of bias in the part of the judge in question.
While entering himself from this case, Chanda’s justice has imposed the cost of RS Lima Lakh in Banerjee for the way he searched for his researcher.
He has noted in the order that Banerjee seeks his researcher “because he caught his objections to my confirmation as a permanent judge of this court known by me”, and maintained that in his view, such land could not justify researchers.
The applicant cannot ask for determination based on his own approval or objection in connection with the appointment of a judge, said the bench, adding that a judge could not be said to be biased because of the wrong person’s perception and actions.
“If such an argument is accepted, the election petition cannot be tried before this court since the applicant, in his capacity as the chairman of the Minister of State, has objected or gave approval of the appointment of most judges Hon’ble from this court,” Justice Chanda said.
In his demands, Chanda’s justice has noted that the letter by the Petitioner’s advice on the Chairperson of the Calcutta High Court on June 16 sought that the election petition was transferred to another judge “containing very confidential information about the appointment of the Judge of the High Court, and the Petitioner, became the leader of the Minister of State, Incribing an oath of confidentiality, it is constitutionally obliged to maintain the confidentiality of the information.
“Releasing the Banerjee Election Petition in the application by him because researchers expressed concerns Bias, justice Chanda said that he did it to thwart the initial effort by community problems to keep controversy to live.