The Calcutta High Court Bar Association has passed a resolution wherein it has been decided by the members of the Bar Association to unanimously refrain from entering the courtroom of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay unless the latter apologises for holding Advocate Prosenjit Mukherjee in the case of criminal contempt.
The court ordered him to be disrobed in open court and sent to civil prison under the custody of the Sheriff without giving him any opportunity of hearing.
Therefore, the communication of the Bar Association came as a result of an urgent general body meeting held on December 18, 2023 and has been addressed to Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam. It has been alleged in the communication by the Bar Association that in the course of hearing a matter, the bench of Justice Gangopadhyay in the case held that Mukherjee guilty of criminal contempt and ordered his immediate arrest in the courtroom because the demurer of Mukherjee while showing an order of the division bench which modified the order of Justice Gangopadhyay’s was improper and contemptuous.The Statement reads that even without any order, the advocate was taken into custody from the courtroom without giving an opportunity for hearing.
Further, it has been stated that such conduct did not go down well with the members of the Bar, who felt unanimously violated and has decided to not enter into the courtroom of Justice Gangopadhyay from tomorrow till the Judge apologises to the concerned advocate and members of the Bar. It has also been requested by the General body to the Chief Justice to withdraw all judicial work from Justice Gangopadhyay as the members are apprehensive of similar treatment which may be extended to any of them.