Ekramul Hoque @ Iku v. State Of West Bengal

04.04.2025 Item No.41 Ct.No.34 rc.

Allowed C.R.M. (DB) 663 of 2025 In Re : An Application for bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure read with Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, in connection with Baishnabnagar Police Station Case No. 723 of 2023 dated 18.10.2023 under Sections 489B/489C of the Indian Penal Code.

And In Re :

Ekramul Hoque @ IKU ... Petitioner.

Mr. Soumyajit Das Mr. Tapodip Gupta ... for the Petitioner.

Mr. Subhamoy Bhyattacharjee Mr. Ratul Ghosh ... For the State.

Heard learned counsels for the parties.

The petitioner renews his prayer for bail. He is in custody for more than a year. Four hundred pieces of FICN were recovered from the possession of the petitioner and seized by the Investigating Agency. Charge sheet has been submitted. Charges are framed. Witness action is yet to commence.

Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer. It appears that four hundred pieces of FICN were recovered from the possession of the petitioner and seized by the Investigating Agency. Further detention of the petitioner is not required for the purpose of custodial interrogation. Accordingly, the prayer for bail is allowed subject to stringent conditions.

The petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand only), with two sureties of like amount each, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Malda subject to condition that he shall remain within the jurisdiction of Baishnabnagar Police Station and shall furnish the address where he shall henceforth reside before the Investigating Officer, the learned trial Court and the Officer-in-Charge of the Baishnabnagar Police Station. The petitioner shall enter the jurisdiction of Englishbazar Police Station only for the purpose of appearing before the learned trial Court on every date fixed by the Court. He shall not intimidate witnesses or tamper with evidence in any manner whatsoever.

In the event the petitioner fails to comply with any of the conditions as referred to above, the learned trial Court shall be at liberty to cancel his bail in accordance with law without further reference to this Court.

The application for bail is, thus, disposed of. Case Diary be returned.

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

(Suvra Ghosh, J.)