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4 unusual facts about Calcutta High Court


Calcutta High Court

The design, by then government architect Walter Granville, was loosely modelled on the 13th-century Cloth Hall at Ypres, Belgium.

The High Court building is an exact replica of the Cloth Hall, Ypres, in Belgium.

Odisha High Court

However, the said new province of Bihar and Orissa was under the jurisdiction of Calcutta High Court.

Paran Jai Jaliya Re

Producer Vipul Shah brought plagiarism charges against the film and the film was banned from screening twice, once by a lower court and later by Calcutta High Court.


Goethals Memorial School

The Honorable Sir John Woodroffe, Advocate General of the Calcutta High Court, an Irishman and a convert, called on Archbishop Brice Meuleman, soon after his consecration and told him that he wished to have a memorial erected to the late Archbishop Goethals.

Government of West Bengal

The Calcutta High Court is located in Kolkata, which has jurisdiction over the whole of West Bengal and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Humayun Kabir

His nephew Altamas Kabir was the 39th Chief Justice of India (CJI) and his niece Shukla Kabir Sinha is a judge of the Calcutta High Court.

Jehangir Kabir

His son Justice Altamas Kabir was the 39th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, while a daughter Shukla Kabir Sinha is a retired judge of the Calcutta High Court.

Ruma Pal

She read for her B.C.L degree at St Anne's College, Oxford and started practice in 1968 in Civil, Revenue, Labour and Constitutional matters in the Calcutta High Court.

Subrata Roy Chowdhury

Subrata Roy Chowdhury is an Indian lawyer who has distinguished himself as a practitioner both in the Supreme Court of India and in the Calcutta High Court.


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Mahbub Ali Khan

Mahbub Ali Khan's grandfather was an eminent doctor in Calcutta and was personal physician to the Bihari Shia lawyer-politician Syed Hasan Imam, the top barrister of Calcutta High Court and leader of the Indian National Congress.