TRIPURA HIGH COURT ISSUES ORDER ON COURT ON ITS OWN MOTION V/S SRI ANINDYA KUMAR BHATTACHARYA

AGARTALA, India, May 16 -- Tripura High Court issued the following order/judgement on April 13:

1. Heard learned Advocate General in the matter.

2. A suo motu Contempt Case was initiated after noticing that the respondent Sri Anindya Kumar Bhattacharya had, instead of going into only the aspect of proportionality of punishment as directed by this Court in the Order dt.02.04.2024 in WA No.108/2023, committed a patent error of law in interfering with a finding recorded by the learned Single Judge in WP(C) No.835/2021 holding that Charge V was not proved.

3. The Division Bench had remitted the matter to him to pass a fresh order on the quantum of penalty noting that Charge IV alone stood proved, and so the said official could not have pas...