Supreme Court docket as we speak stayed Calcutta Excessive Court docket choose Abhijit Gangopadhyay’s order in search of a CBI probe into medical admissions in Bengal. The matter is about alleged irregularities within the issuance of reserved class certificates and admission of MBBS candidates in state-run medical schools and hospitals in West Bengal.
In an unprecedented occasion, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay accused his colleague, Justice Soumen Sen who presided over a division bench that stayed a single-judge order for a CBI probe into medical admission irregularities, of working for a political get together.
A five-judge structure bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud and justices Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, Surya Kant and Aniruddha Bose heard the matter as we speak. The bench issued a discover to the West Bengal authorities and the unique petitioner within the case.
It additionally stayed the orders handed by the single-judge bench and the division bench within the matter.
“We are going to take this up on Monday, took this up now to cross this order. We now have taken cost now,” the bench mentioned.
A single-judge bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Thursday held that the order handed by the division bench of Justices Soumen Sen and Uday Kumar as wholly unlawful and must be ignored.
Initially, the only bench had directed a CBI investigation saying it had no religion within the state police on a plea filed by MBBS candidate Itisha Soren alleging irregularities within the admissions of candidates in medical schools and hospitals beneath the reservation class.
