Behind the impeachment: Advocate’s history catches up with judge

On April 10, 2006, Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta of the Calcutta High Court directed a colleague, Justice Soumitra Sen, to return an amount that he had collected in 1993 as a court receiver. Newspapers in Kolkata reported the order in November, setting off a chain of events that saw the matter reaching Rajya Sabha in 2009 and Justice Sen facing impeachment proceedings on Wednesday.

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