Bhaskar Das v. State Of West Bengal

April 03, 2025 54 ARDR (Rejected) CRM(DB) 610 of 2025 In Re : An Application for bail under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 filed in connection with Sankrail GRPS Police Station Case No. 432 of 2021 dated 15/4/2021 under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.

And In Re :

Bhaskar Das ... Petitioner.

Adv. Sk. Toslim Ali, Adv. Rituparna Bhadra, ... for the petitioner.

Adv. Minoti Gomes, Adv. Abhinaba Mukherjee, ... for the State.

The petitioner is in custody for about four years. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the case is based on circumstantial evidence. There is delay in progress of trial. Only one witness has been examined till date. The petitioner prays for bail. Opposing the prayer, learned counsel for the State takes this Court to the statements of the witnesses under Section 164 of the Code of the Criminal Procedure implicating the petitioner. The petitioner is the nephew of the deceased. True, he is in custody for a considerable period of time. However, sufficient incriminating material having transpired against him during investigation, this Court is not inclined to release the petitioner on bail at this stage.

Hence, the prayer for bail is rejected at this stage. However, considering the period of incarceration of the petitioner, learned trial Court is directed to take the proceeding to its logical conclusion as expeditiously as possible without granting

any unnecessary adjournment to either of the parties, in accordance with law.

Case Diary be returned.

The application for bail is disposed of.

Urgent certified website copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance with all requisite formalities.

(Suvra Ghosh, J.)