On Wednesday morning, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay passed an order asking the West Bengal Police to hand over documents related to the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Minutes after said order was passed, West Bengal Advocate General Kishore Datta mentioned the matter before a division bench of of Justices Soumen Sen and Uday Kumar, which stayed the single-judge’s order on the same day.
Justice Gangopadhyay then took up the matter again, and ordered the AG to hand over the case papers to the CBI, insisting that he wasn’t informed of the stay order passed by the division bench.
The division bench subsequently set aside the single-judge order, after which Justice Gangopadhyay passed a rather controversial order ruling that the division bench order must be “ignored”.
Among other things, Justice Gangopadhyay stated in his order that Justice Soumen Sen, who was heading the division bench, was “acting for a political party in the State”.
Source: Barandbench
