Secretary Alipore Bar Association vs Subir Sengupta

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2024 Supreme(Cal) 210

CHITTA RANJAN DASH, PARTHA SARATHI SEN
Secretary Alipore Bar Association – Appellant
Versus
Subir Sengupta – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. Joydip Kar, Mr. Sankha Biswas, Adv.
For the Respondent No.1: Mr. Subir Sanyal, Mr. Sukanta Chakraborty, Adv., Mr. Srijib Chakraborty, Adv., Mr. Lokenath Chatterjee, Adv., Mr. Sukanta Ghosh, Adv., Mr. Rivu Dutta, Adv., Mr. Chandan Kr. Saha, Adv., Mr. Pradip Kr. Mondal, Adv., Mr. Sankarshan Majumder, Adv., Mr. Arghya Chatterjee, Adv., Ms. Falguni bandhyopadhya, Adv., Mr. Debabrata Saha Roy, Mr. Neil Basu, Adv.
For the Applicant : Mr. Abhratosh Majumdar, Sr. Adv., Mr. Sayan Sinha, Adv., Mr. Kaushyeo Roy, Adv., Mr. Nilanjan Bhattacharya, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

1. Mr. Majumdar, learned Counsel appearing for the proposed intervenors, has filed two interim applications vide CAN 5 and 6 of 2004 to allow intervention of the person who has filed nomination for the post of Secretary, Alipore Bar Association. Both these interim applications were filed on 08.04.2024. Pending disposal of the intervention applications, we allow Mr. Majumdar to advance his argument in favour of the proposed intervenor.

2. The sole question that falls for our determination in the present appeal is whether election to the Bar Association (Alipore Bar Association here), is amenable to the writ jurisdiction of this High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.

3. It is submitted by Mr. Joydip Kar, learned senior Counsel appearing for the appellant that two writ petitions relating to the self-same subject pertaining to election to Alipore Bar Association have already been disposed of vide WPA 5250 of 2022 on 24.03.2022 concerning the election for the year 2021 and WPA 28560 of 2023 on 19.12.2023 concerning election for the year 2023. The present writ petition is concerned with election to the self-same Bar Association for the year 2024-25. It is furt

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2024 Supreme(Cal) 210

CHITTA RANJAN DASH, PARTHA SARATHI SENSecretary Alipore Bar Association – AppellantVersusSubir Sengupta – Respondent

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CHITTA RANJAN DASH, PARTHA SARATHI SEN
Secretary Alipore Bar Association – Appellant
Versus
Subir Sengupta – Respondent