Abhijit Gangopadhyay is an Indian politician and former judge who was appointed as a permanent judge of the Calcutta High Court in 2020. In March 2024, he made headlines when he resigned as a permanent judge of the Calcutta High Court.
Wiki/Biography
Abhijit Gangopadhyay was born on Sunday, August 19, 1962, in Kolkata, West Bengal, India (age 62; as of 2024). His zodiac sign is Leo. He completed his studies from Mitra College (Main College), Kolkata in 1979. He studied law at Hazira Law College, Kolkata.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 9″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
His father is a lawyer.
wife
He is married.
Profession
After starting his career as a Grade A officer in the West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS), he was initially posted to North Dinajpur. He later resigned from this position to study law. Before being appointed as a judge, he served as a state advocate in the Calcutta High Court. On May 2, 2018, he was appointed as additional judge of the Calcutta High Court and promoted to permanent judge on July 30, 2020. He resigned as a judge of the Calcutta High Court on March 5, 2024 and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party to enter politics. party.
noteworthy judgment
West Bengal School Services Recruitment Scam
Since November 2021, Justice Abhijit has issued a series of directions to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe alleged irregularities in the recruitment process of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC). He issued several decisions against School Service Commission personnel, which created political turmoil in West Bengal and the Calcutta High Court. In a letter, Gangopadhyay sought the Chief Justice of India’s intervention in the decision of a Justice Ministry judge in a case involving alleged irregularities in the School Service Commission.
Abhijit Gangopadhyay interacts with media
The Calcutta High Court Bar Association issued a resolution on April 13, 2022, calling for a boycott of the Gangopadhyay Court. In response to protests outside the court by the All India Trinamool Congress legal cell, the then governor Jagdeep Dhankhar sent a letter to the West Bengal chief minister on the matter. Gangopadhyay ordered former education minister Partha Chatterjee to appear before the CBI on May 18, 2022, to investigate the alleged teacher recruitment scam. In May 2022, he asked Minister of State for School Education Paresh Chandra Adhikary to appear before the inquiry. Reported to CBI for his alleged involvement in the illegal appointment of his daughter Ankita Adhikary. Justice Gangopadhyay had issued directions to the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) in September 2022 to replace illegally appointed school teachers with qualified applicants from the waiting list. He had in July 2023 ordered the West Bengal School Service Commission to publish the names of 907 teachers in XI-XII schools who were fraudulently appointed.
politics
He contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Tamluk constituency in West Bengal on the ticket of the Bharatiya Janata Party and won.
dispute
Lawyers included over Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay’s alleged use of “derogatory and defamatory remarks” against state Attorney General Kishore Dutta during the hearing of the 2024 case More than 250 lawyers, including members of the group, wrote a letter to the bench of Calcutta High Court Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam. The alleged controversy took place on January 25, 2024, when the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was ordered by Justice Gangopadhyay to investigate an alleged scam case involving MBBS recruitment. (Soumen Sen) A Division Bench headed by Justice took a contrary decision.
#JustIn: More than 250 lawyers have written to the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court highlighting the manner in which Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay has “humiliated” state Attorney General Kishore Datta.
Lawyers have sought an apology from Justice Gangopadhyay… pic.twitter.com/l1j2Ln9rV6
— Bar and Bench (@barandbench) January 30, 2024
Facts/Trivia
- While in college, he worked in Bengali theater productions. He is also a member of the “Amitra Chanda” troupe. In 1986, he appeared in a drama for the last time.
- In March 2024, he announced his resignation as a judge of the Calcutta High Court and decided to enter politics.
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