West Bengal Bar Council seeks removal of Acting Chief Justice of Calcutta HC

Rajesh Bindal ‘is an unfair, biased and partial judge’, says Trinamool Congress MLA and Bar Council Chairman Ashok Kumar Deb, in his letter to the Chief Justice of India.

The Chairman of the Bar Council of West Bengal Ashok Kumar Deb has written to Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana seeking the removal of Acting Rajesh Bindal alleging bias on his part. “We would like to set out that Hon’ble Bindal is an unfair, biased and partial judge and whose continuance at the Hon’ble High Court interferes with the fair and impartial dispensation of justice,” the six-page letter by Mr. Deb said. Mr. Deb, who is also a Trinamool Congress MLA, refers to the way bail to the four accused in was withheld without hearing the accused and “improper listing” of various cases, including the election petition of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The letter referred to listing the election petition before Justice Kausik Chanda “while being completely and fully aware of Hon’ble Justice Chanda’s long-standing association with the BJP”.