The Calcutta High Court directed the West Bengal DGP to submit a Standard Operating Procedure for handling social media content targeting judges and judicial proceedings, during hearing of a case connected to Swami Pradiptananda before Justice Jay Sengupta.
The Allahabad High Court quashed rape and assault proceedings, observing that long-standing consensual relationships cannot automatically be treated as rape after breakdown, while Justice Vivek Kumar Singh warned against misuse of criminal law and continuation of futile trials lacking evidence of deception from inception.
Two All India Trinamool Congress leaders, including a sitting MLA, approached the Calcutta High Court seeking protection from coercive police action over criminal cases registered after West Bengal Assembly election results, with Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya agreeing to hear the petitions Thursday.
