More recently, Justice Gangopadhyay had accused his fellow judge – Justice Soumen Sen – of ‘clearly acting for some political party in West Bengal.’ The single-judge had also urged the Supreme Court to look into the orders passed by Justice Sen in matters involving the State.
This was in a case relating to caste certificate scam in West Bengal.
Pertinently, Justice Sen was heading the division bench that stayed Justice Gangopadhyay’s order calling for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the scam.
However, despite such an order being passed, Justice Gangopadhyay again took up the matter for hearing and eventually passed an order questioning how the division bench headed by Justice Sen could stay his initial order for a CBI probe. In the said order, Justice Gangopadhyay asked the CBI to ‘ignore’ the division bench’s order as it was passed in an ‘illegally filed appeal.’
The judge then went on to claim that Justice Sen had ‘instructed’ Justice Amrita Sinha to drop cases filed against Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee since he has a ‘good political future.’
The Supreme Court was then forced to take suo motu notice of the events in Calcutta High Court and transfer all the proceedings in the fake certficate case to itself.
Source: Barandbench
