The Calcutta High Court has seen 13 additions to the Bench in month of October, pushing the number of sitting judges to 50, leaving only 8 positions vacant..Out of the 13 new Additional Judges, six are from the judicial services. The new appointees are Chief Judge of City Sessions Court, Indrajit Chatterjee, Chief Judge of City Civil Court, Shib Sadhan Sadhu; District Judge, Sudip Ahluwalia; Judicial Secretary, Tapas Mukherjee; Director of the West Bengal Judicial Academy, Ranjit Kumar Bag, and Ishan Chandra Das of the State Legal Remembrance. .Although their appointments were made on September 19, 2013 they were sworn in on October 3, 2013..The remaining seven have been elevated from the Bar, with their appointments made on October 21, 2013. They are Samapti Chatterjee, Sahidullah Munshi, Subrata Talukdar, Tapabrata Chakraborty, Arindam Sinha, Arijit Banerjee, and Debangsu Basak. They were sworn into office on October 30, 2013..(HT to Bar & Bench reader, R. Poddar for his help)
The Calcutta High Court has seen 13 additions to the Bench in month of October, pushing the number of sitting judges to 50, leaving only 8 positions vacant..Out of the 13 new Additional Judges, six are from the judicial services. The new appointees are Chief Judge of City Sessions Court, Indrajit Chatterjee, Chief Judge of City Civil Court, Shib Sadhan Sadhu; District Judge, Sudip Ahluwalia; Judicial Secretary, Tapas Mukherjee; Director of the West Bengal Judicial Academy, Ranjit Kumar Bag, and Ishan Chandra Das of the State Legal Remembrance. .Although their appointments were made on September 19, 2013 they were sworn in on October 3, 2013..The remaining seven have been elevated from the Bar, with their appointments made on October 21, 2013. They are Samapti Chatterjee, Sahidullah Munshi, Subrata Talukdar, Tapabrata Chakraborty, Arindam Sinha, Arijit Banerjee, and Debangsu Basak. They were sworn into office on October 30, 2013..(HT to Bar & Bench reader, R. Poddar for his help)
