Madhumati Mitra, brief acting registrar of NUJS, to become Calcutta HC judge

NUJS Kolkata former acting registrar Madhumati Mitra will be joining the Calcutta high court as a judge alongside five others, according to the Supreme Court’s collegium resolution, after having recently resigned from the law school having completed a little over two months in her post, as we had reported.

She had declined to comment at the time.

Mitra had been recommended alongside one advocate and two other judicial officers, in November 2017, to join as a judge at the high court but the high court had deferred the four appointments after receiving objections to these recommendations.

But the Supreme Court collegium eventually advised the high court that the objections were baseless and that the four recommended judges should be appointed to the high court in order of seniority.

Mitra was the second acting registrar at NUJS after Sarfaraz Ahmed Khan and according to several sources at the law school at the time.

West Bengal additional district judge Sikha Sen has succeeded Mitra as acting registrar at NUJS.

Comments

Guest 17 Sept 2018, 10:29
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It is a slap to those who were spreading rumours. It shows that administration is in good health and in fact people appointed to administration have been so good that someone even became a judge.
Raz Cann 17 Sept 2018, 17:04
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Hey Guest are you the PA (system) of Lord Taluk? While you were busy playing taluka level politics, The Wire had already reported that Madhumati Mitra and Bibek Chaudhury (Judicial Secy, WB and an EC member at NUJS) were in the list of names that were recommended for elevation. You should also know that there is a convention in all HCs that some service judges will be recommended for elevation. These usually include the top judicial officers, such as the Registrar General of HC, Judicial or Law Secretaries and like. Madhumati Mitra was recommended when she was the Registrar-General of the Calcutta HC. The judicial officer who replaced her in Calcutta HC has also been recommended by the SC collegium. You probably would have known all this had you not been busy manipulating the agendas for the FC and EC. Oh, almost forgot, weren't you the one who was undermining Madhumati Mitra then and now her successor? Is Lord Taluk happy with your performance? And yes, altering the frequency of your coven meetings, change in taluka et al will not fool anyone. What goes up will come down despite boosters. You know that, don't ya?
Guest 18 Sept 2018, 05:11
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Kindly mind your tongue and speak properly. I am surprised that such cheap and filthy comments are allowed to be published.
Raz Cann 18 Sept 2018, 08:20
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Hey Guest, it seems my shot in the dark found its mark. It is debatable whether my language was filthy. But I bet the following things that you did or continue to do can be considered filthy:

a. Generous "subsistence allowance" to [...]. Why did you not challenge it in all these years? Only now, to avoid embarrassment and further questions, you have raised the issue weakly. Playing victim has diminishing returns. Sahin bola!

b. Serial offending by [...]. Slapgate and then actively aiding the infamous [...] to destroy and steal papers from the Univ. Recently everybody read the relevant portions of the Justice PN Sinha Inquiry Report. By the way, did you evaporate the slapgate inquiry report against LDG? Was [...] part of this vanishing trick? You (he ensured that your cousin AC got the job) and your coven supported him then and now actively working to get him back in again. Don't worry you have Lord Taluk's blessings. Poor Madhumati Mitra lost her mind and job here when she raised difficult questions for your coven. Is Shikha Sen next?

c. Recruitment scams since 2012. You hate the SJA for bringing that up, don't ya. Three recent coven recruits could face an uncertain future here, if the scam is seriously investigated. But you have Lord Taluk here too. So why worry?

d. [...] plunders NUJS as if there is no tomorrow. But you kept quiet and hushed up matters. I guess that luxury comes easy when you and your coven enjoy the spoils.

So the next time you point your filthy finger at others, remember what your teachers taught you at school.
Guest 18 Sept 2018, 11:21
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I request owner of the website to please black out the names of the persons who are being defamed openly and falsely. Thank you.
Raz Cann 18 Sept 2018, 15:44
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Your sins cover the entire spectrum - white, black, rainbow. Very racist to single out black for covering your colourful sins. Oh, remind Lord Taluk that he no longer wields the hammer. Should get a Stormbreaker made to avenge your dishonour. When you are ready, tell me to tremble. I will fake it. May not be as good as yours!!
Bong weed 18 Sept 2018, 18:13
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Something sinister is on. Who are the coven recruits? Please hint without taking names.
Raz Cann 18 Sept 2018, 18:32
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Two are already mentioned in the relevant comment. If you have figured out those two then the third one should be easy. Read between the lines. As they say the devil is in the details.
Tiddly winks 18 Sept 2018, 18:53
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@RC: One is the younger avatar of sociological subjectivity, of course. Everybody knows who Slapgate is all about, but that person wasn't recruited after 2012. So who are the other two you are talking about? Some more hints, maybe?
Raz Cann 19 Sept 2018, 01:51
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Hamney bola please read between the lines. This should get you closer. The other is the fiery princeling of the taluka called NUJS.
Tiddly winks 19 Sept 2018, 07:09
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Ok, got that after a little bit of labour. That still leaves a third.
Raz Cann 19 Sept 2018, 15:48
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Didn't get the fiery princeling? Should be very obvious assuming you got the other two right and identified the coven members. Ah, it is possible that you are thinking that [...] Those qualities define the coven anyway so membership was easy.
Tiddly Winks 20 Sept 2018, 01:23
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No, got the cousin and the fiery princeling. It's the third I was wondering about, because Slapgate wasn't a recent recruitment and you hinted there are three whose recruitment could be questioned.
Witch hunt 20 Sept 2018, 14:05
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Exactly who is the third? The gate was slapped a long while back! Btw it's the tortious character who according to the grapevine is calling the shots now.
Annie Mal 20 Sept 2018, 16:26
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I think RC is suggesting someone who is economical with marks when it concerns male students. It took a while to figure out why RC suddenly went vernacular for a bit and suggested reading between the lines...devil in the details et al.
Alarmed Alum 20 Sept 2018, 18:16
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I used to think that was a historical problem! Possibly imported from the crannies of Oxford. You are telling me that vice has started having an impact on institutional economy, too? Sad. The previous teacher Nawn had a lot of issues in our times, but he was a fair teacher at least.
haha 17 Sept 2018, 10:37
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Well, she left in disgust, in a big hurry. So don't pretend now that somehow NUJS can claim some of the reflected glory. We already have a retired judge as VC and he is making a royal mess of administration. the hostel mess is in fact less messy.
Next SJA President 17 Sept 2018, 11:29
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My predictions:

1. Bossman will stay on for 1 year (50% over already). Will work out an arrangement where he can return as a chair professor or clinical professor, as would like some post-retirement benefits.

2. Rather Particular will take over the chair in 2019, a month or two before the new session starts. Will have full backing of SJA and recent alumni. Will be furiously opposed by older alumni (who nearly got him sacked when he first joined) but they are far away from the action and too busy with their work to care beyond a point.
Resident Evil 18 Sept 2018, 15:17
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You will not know its presence as it takes to your group. Awake or asleep, the nightmares (at NUJS) will begin (has begun already). Can you spot the Ghoul @ NUJS?
BC 18 Sept 2018, 04:59
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Happy to hear that she has been appointed as a judge. Now can someone please appoint the VC??
Raz Cann 18 Sept 2018, 15:20
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Done already. Did you not hear it from the PA (system)? All hail Lord Taluk
Guest 20 Sept 2018, 06:57
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Satta bazaar odds on next VC:

Poddar - 2:1
NK Chakrabarty - 5:1
JK Das - 6:1
Mazumdar - 7:1
Jaswal (RGNLU) - 7:1
Raz Cann 20 Sept 2018, 07:36
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So a cabal of [...]. It will be interesting to see if AM survives the onslaught from the Justice League, especially from the other Majumdar. You missed PA. Has the best shot. [...]

You missed some names that are favoured by the Gods in EC and elsewhere. Such as, SS Chatterjee, Manik Chakraborty, Rathin Banerjee, IG Ahmed. Think politically and more names will emerge.
Guest 20 Sept 2018, 08:58
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The onslaught is gonna reveal zilch. The famed inquiries everyone was going ga-ga about have hit predictable roadblocks right after the very first day. No further meeting or hearing has taken place and none of the highly selective group of people against whom questions have been brought up has even been called or questioned. It's all a sham to extend Taluk and Friends' reign, nothing else.
PA 20 Sept 2018, 17:22
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This is the royal decree of Lord Taluk. There shall be no adjournments or appeal. Ignore at your peril -

Kangaroo courts will continue to be convened. Spoils will be enjoyed by the Justice League and their acolytes. Injustice League and dissenters shall be shred. The SJA will survive as they learn to serve true Justice; the one that truly matters. This (not so) great taluka, it will endure. NUJS will survive

If you have a Rather Particular problem with plagiarism, I don't care. He doesn't. Lord Taluk doesn't. You know who I am and where I sit. Proximity to power has not made me delusional. I am the Power.
Guest 20 Sept 2018, 07:49
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You missed the current head of North Bengal University's law department. He has the best odds in his favour now, being a state government stooge in every possible way.
Rebel 20 Sept 2018, 14:50
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Shame on the SJA. Totally spineless. Will ensure that a useless VC is appointed and that the college is ruined.
Guest 20 Sept 2018, 15:52
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SJA can't even stop or take actions against drunk students who are ganging up against and beating up other students in their hostel rooms so badly as to require hospitalisation. NUJS hostel is just a den of vice now. From booze to drugs to beatings to molestations harassment to rampant abuse hurling and vandalising, everything goes. Soon the news will spread and parents will start thinking twice about sending their kids to live here, if they aren't already. Both the admin and the sja lack guts and spine to deal with any of that effectively.
Defender 21 Sept 2018, 09:43
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In a world of lies and propaganda in the style of Goebbels and Stalin, let me lay out the true facts in the hope that at least some people will understand the true picture:

1. The Acting VC and new administration are doing a stellar job. Remember that NUJS was plundered and ruined for 7 years under a dictator. Reconstruction of the college and a return to its former glory will taken 8 to 10 years at least. It has just been a few months. Even in this small period many improvements are happening.

2. The same people who caused the 7 year plunder are complaining. Please ignore them. They are enemies of NUJS.

3. It is such a joke that on the one hand some students complain of absence of so-called good faculty, which for them usually means alumni of NLUs/foreign universities, or people with experience, good publications etc. But when such people are brought the students show no interest.
Guest 21 Sept 2018, 11:53
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Why don't you list out a few of the improvements? Even better, get your darling administration to implement some of the Review Commission recommendations, if you get any break from your sycophancy, that is? 8 to 10 years indeed! The only things wrong with the place is the admin and people like you who ignore institution's interest in favour of your petty personal interest. You are just happy because you are a beneficiary under the Taluk regime. Want me to start naming all the cases where Lord Taluk approves en mass all the applications from students for extension, exemption, multiple exams, thus diluting the already falling academic standards? As for bringing good people, how many have been brought in during the last 5 months? Why aren't the vacant posts being advertised? Why are the inquiries dragging on for ever without any action taken? Why are the people who are close to the current admin, but very much involved in the 7 year plunder including helping the previous registrar to steal from the university, not being included in the inquiry? Why are EC meetings not being held every 3 months as promised? Why were the student fees increased in this semester without as much as a new doorknob being bought to account for the fee hike? Why is so much money continuing to be spent on litigation and arbitration? Why is construction of as simple as 2 washrooms taking longer than what Akshay Kumar spent growing the courage to name a movie Toilet? Answer all these questions first and then sing paeans of Taluk and Friends. You are a worthless defender of yet another worthless regime after PIB. #PIBTalukBhaiBhai