Justice Soumitra Sen

• Impeachment proceedings against Justice Sen dropped

  The Lok Sabha will drop impeachment proceedings against Justice Soumitra Sen today. The decision was taken at a meeting that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had with Law Minister Salman Khurshid and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal.

• Justice Sen's resignation accepted, impeachment in Lok Sabha unlikely

  The government tonight took the unusual step of notifying the resignation of Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court, strengthening speculation that the impeachment proceedings against him in the Lok Sabha scheduled for tomorrow may be dropped, but there was no official confirmation of such a move.Justice Sen's resignation after he had been...

• Justice Soumitra Sen's resignation accepted: Sources

  Two days after Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court sent in his resignation to President Pratibha Patil, sources say his resignation has been accepted.Justice Sen is facing impeachment proceedings on charges of financial misconduct. The Rajya Sabha had voted in favour of his impeachment a few weeks ago. Sources say impeachment proceeding...

• Justice Sen has quit, but impeachment process may continue

  Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court may have resigned but the Lok Sabha will continue with the impeachment proceedings against him on Monday.

• Full text: Justice Soumitra Sen's resignation letter

  Here's the letter written by Justice Soumitra Sen to the Lok Sabha Speaker.

• Justice Soumitra Sen resigns after Rajya Sabha voted to impeach him

  Justice Soumitra Sen has resigned as a judge of the Calcutta High Court. Justice Sen has sent a letter to President Pratibha Patil and the Lok Sabha Speaker, Meira Kumar.

• New law proposed on judges' appointment

  Even as members of the Rajya Sabha created history by voting to impeach Justice Soumitra Sen of the Kolkata High Court on corruption charges, concerns have come to the fore about the manner in which judges are appointed. Now the government wants to push forward a new law, whereby judges will not be appointed by judges alone, as is the current pract...

• Rajya Sabha votes in favour of Justice Soumitra Sen's impeachment

  In a historic first, the Rajya Sabha today voted in favour of impeaching Calcutta High Court judge Justice Soumitra Sen, finding him guilty of misappropriating funds as a judge and of misrepresenting facts.

• Justice Soumitra Sen's impeachment: Rajya Sabha likely to decide today

  Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley today tore into  Justice Soumitra Sen's  defence, saying that the latter had misled the House.  The 53-year-old judge had claimed that he was being made a "sacrificial lamb" while facing impeachment proceedings in the Rajya Sabha yesterday.Mr Jaitley, who is the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya ...

• I am being made a scapegoat: Justice Soumitra Sen

  Facing impeachment proceedings in the Rajya Sabha, Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court today asserted that he was not guilty of financial irregularities and the allegations of misconduct and misappropriation of funds against him were aimed at victimising him in a pre-determined move.Given 90 minutes to present his case in front of the H...

• In a first, Rajya Sabha begins impeachment proceedings against Justice Soumitra Sen

  Anna Hazare's arrest might have dominated proceedings in Parliament today, but there's another issue that will see Rajya Sabha make history as it begins impeachment proceedings against Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court.It's a first as Justice Sen, facing charges of misconduct, will be the first judge to be impeached by the Upper House...

• Justice Soumitra Sen's impeachment proceedings in Parliament next week

  The Rajya Sabha will take up on August 17 the impeachment proceedings of Calcutta High Court judge Soumitra Sen. The motion will be taken up at 3 pm.

• Paid holiday for Justice Soumitra Sen?

  Justice Soumitra Sen may be making history as only the second judge on his way to impeachment but he still enjoys a big salary. Despite being indicted many times for corruption, the judge has comfortably managed to exploit the loopholes in the system.Excluding allowances and perks for fuel, attendants, house rent, phone and medical bills, Justice S...

• Justice Soumitra Sen guilty of misusing public funds, impeachment could follow

  There has been much talk about the corruption in the Cabinet, in the Maharashtra politics and now there is corruption in the judiciary.A Rajya Sabha panel has found Calcutta High Court Judge Soumitra Sen guilty of misappropriating large sums of public funds that clears the way for impeachment proceedings to begin against him. Now, if the majority o...

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  Soumitra Sen challenges impeachment

  Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court has challenged the move to initiate impeachment proceedings against him.