On Monday, the Calcutta High Court deferred the hearing in the Nandigram vote-counting case till December 1. In this case, the Court ordered BJP leader and West Bengal Assembly Leader Suvendu Adhikari to provide a written answer by November 29. when Justice Kausik Chanda recused himself from hearing the appeal filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against the Nandigram vote results, the subject was assigned to Justice Sampa Sarkar’s Calcutta High Court Bench West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was fined Rs 5 lakhs by the Calcutta High Court on July 7 for slandering the judiciary.
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The decision was issued by the Calcutta High Court’s single bench led by Justice Kausik Chanda while hearing Mamata Banerjee’s election case contesting Adhikari’s win from the Nandigram Constituency in the recently concluded state assembly elections. Justice Chanda first refused to drop the case, but then changed his mind and stated that he was recused from the matter. The West Bengal Chief Minister has already tried to remove the judge in the case, alleging that Justice Chanda has ties to the BJP. Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP was proclaimed the winner of the hotly contested election for the Nandigram seat by the Election Commission. Banerjee claimed after her defeat in Nandigram that the Returning Officer for the Assembly seat had been intimidated against recounting ballots.
Despite losing the seat to Adhikari, a former close aide of Banerjee’s, the TMC won a landslide victory in elections, garnering 213 seats in the 294-member West Bengal parliament. While the BJP did not win the election, it did emerge as the second-largest party with 77 seats. The TMC even wrote to the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer, requesting “urgent re-counting of votes and postal ballots” in the Nandigram seat, but recounting was denied for unclear reasons.
