Narada case: Calcutta HC judge objects to listing of transfer plea as writ petition

‘Our conduct unbecoming of the majesty High Court commands,’ says Judge Arindam Sinha says in letter to Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal.

Expressing objections to the manner in which the transfer plea of the (CBI) in the was listed before the Division Bench as a writ petition, a sitting Judge of the Calcutta High Court has written a letter to Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and other Judges of the High Court lamenting that “our conduct is unbecoming of the majesty the High Court commands”. In a letter dated May 24, Judge Arindam Sinha said, “Our conduct is unbecoming of the majesty the High Court commands. We have been reduced to a mockery. As such I am requesting all of us to salvage the situation by taking such steps, including convening a full court, if necessary, for the purpose of re-affirming sanctity of our rules and our unwritten code of conduct”. The communication said that the Appellate Side Rules of the High Court, which govern the procedure of listing in such matters, require that a motion seeking transfer either on the civil or the criminal side, had to be heard by a single judge.