Calcutta HC directs police to identify protesters who made derogatory comments about judge

Calcutta High Court Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, on Monday, directed the Kolkata Police to identify those who made derogatory comments about fellow judge Justice Biswajit Basu during protest demonstrations by a group of people against senior advocate and CPI(M) Rajya Sabha member Bikas Ranjan Bhattacharya.

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The protest happened last week in front of Bhattacharya's chamber on the court premises.

Bhattacharya had, during the trial of the school job scam, put forth several arguments, which the protesters believe helped in formulating the final judgment in the case. As a result, they said, there were negative court orders resulting in the termination of jobs of several teaching and non-teaching people in state-run schools.

During those protests last week, the protesters also used derogatory language against Justice Basu for some of his negative observations in some of these cases.