India, July 25 -- The Calcutta high court on Wednesday pulled up the West Bengal government for violating the court's directive by holding separate meetings with a group of directors from the Bengali movie industry and the Trinamool Congress-controlled umbrella body of cine technicians accused of not letting these directors work since July 2024, lawyers who attended the hearing said.

The directors include prominent figures such as Parambrata Chatterjee, Anirban Bhattacharya, Indranil Roychowdhury, Subrata Sen and Sudeshna Roy.

TMC leader Swarup Biswas, the younger brother of cabinet minister Aroop Biswas, is president of Cine Technicians' Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI).

"During Wednesday's hearing on writ petitions filed by 13 direc...