: West Bengal polls: Mamata Banerjee seeks recusal of judge hearing plea on Nandigram results #IndiaNEWS West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday moved a plea in the Calcutta High Court

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West Bengal polls: Mamata Banerjee seeks recusal of judge hearing plea on Nandigram results #IndiaNEWS
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday moved a plea in the Calcutta High Court seeking recusal of Justice Kaushik Chanda from hearing her petition that challenged the poll result for the Nandigram constituency in the Assembly elections, reported Live Law.In her plea, Banerjee cited “likelihood of bias�, suggesting Chanda was associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party during his days as a lawyer. In Thursday’s hearing, Chanda reserved order on the recusal plea after Banerjee’s counsel, Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, insisted that the matter had to be decided upon first before the judge hears the petition on poll result.Last week, Banerjee had moved the Calcutta High Court, challenging the Nandigram election result. The West Bengal chief minister had lost the Nandigram seat to Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari, her former close aide who had joined the saffron party before the elections. After Chanda was rostered to hear the petition, Banerjee wrote to Calcutta High Court Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal requesting him to reassign the petition, Bar and Bench reported. The letter stated that Justice Chanda was an active member of the BJP before he became a judge, and this could lead to bias.In Thursday’s hearing, Singhvi mentioned that Banerjee has filed a plea seeking Chanda’s recusal from the case. “This case was...Read more

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