International Desk :
A higher court in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata on Wednesday imposed a fine of 5 lakh rupees (7,000 USD) on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her “preplanned move to malign a judge”.
Justice Kaushik Chanda of Kolkata High Court asked Mamata to deposit the fine before recusing himself from hearing a case filed by the firebrand woman politician challenging the election of her former protege-turned-rival Suvendu Adhikari from Nandigram in May’s assembly polls, reports UNB.
The Bengal Chief Minister had asked Justice Chanda to quit the case over “conflict of interest” in the wake of his alleged links with India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Interestingly, Suvendu is BJP’s leader of opposition in Bengal.
