Sayan Halder And ANR. v. State Of West Bengal

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

Criminal Revisional Jurisdiction 22-02-2024 Subha Item no. 76 Ct no.34 CRR 594 of 2024 Sayan Halder and anr.

-versus- State of West Bengal Mr. Angshuman Chakraborty Mr. S. S. Saha ....for the petitioners.

Mr. Sudip Kumar ...for the State.

Learned advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that they were arrested and are still in custody since 11.12.2021 in connection with Baguiati P. S. Case No. 608/2021. Petitioner are in custody for more than 2 years 2 months, which is definitely a cause of agony and as such the learned special court is directed to fix a schedule consisting of three dates and such schedule be fixed once in every forty-five days so that the trial of the case can be taken to its logical conclusion within a reasonable period of time.

No unnecessary adjournments should be granted to either of the parties. In case, any witness is not present or reluctant to appear on the dates so fixed, the learned special court would communicate with the Superintendent of Police who is in charge of Baguiati Police Station so that the concerned office would communicate regarding the availability of the witness concerned or the reasons for the witness not being available.

The Public Prosecutor appearing in the case would produce the materials, documents and exhibits on the dates fixed for examination of the witnesses concerned.

All efforts be taken by the stake-holders to cooperate with the trial court so that the trial is concluded within a reasonable period of time.

With the aforesaid observations, the present revisional application being CRR 594 of 2024 is disposed of. Pending applications, if any, are consequently disposed of. All concerned parties are to act in terms of a copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this court. [Tirthankar Ghosh, J]