Basudeb Dutta v. State Of West Bengal And ANR
23.02.2024 Serial no. 71 [G.S.D] CRR 616 of 2024 In the Matter of : Basudeb Dutta ... ... Petitioner Mr. Suman Basu Ms. Debanwita Pramaniki ... for the petitioner Mr. Sushanta Malkhandy Ms. Ananya Roy Mr. Debasish Roy Mr. Saryati Datta ... for the State Leave, as prayed, for correction in the prayer of the revisional application, is granted. Ld. Advocate for the petitioner would take steps immediately.
The grievance of the petitioner is that the present case being Baranagar P.S. Case No. 229 of 2016 was registered on 21.3.2016 and the investigating agency on completion of investigation submitted charge-sheet in the year 2016.
Subsequently, charge was framed in the year 2018, but, till date, none of the witnesses have been examined. Having considered the fact that more than seven years have passed since the investigation of the case, I direct the Deputy Commissioner in charge of Baranagar P.S. to take steps and give necessary instructions so that the witnesses are made available on the date so fixed by the ld. Trial court.
The ld. JM, 4th Court, Barrackpore is directed to fix at least one date in every 45 days for the purposes of the present case so that the trial of the case can be taken to its logical conclusion within a reasonable period of time. No unnecessary adjournment be granted to either of the parties.
Ld. Public Prosecutor conducting the case would produce the materials, exhibits and documents on the date so fixed for examination of the witnesses. All stakeholders would cooperate with the ld. Trial court so that the trial can be completed at the earliest.
With the aforesaid observations, CRR 616 of 2024 is disposed of.
Pending application, if any, is also disposed of. Parties to act on a server copy of this order duly collected from the official website of the Hon'ble High Court, Calcutta.
Urgent Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties, subject to compliance with all requisite formalities.
(Tirthankar Ghosh, J.)