Amit Das v. State Of West Bengal

C.R.R. 693 of 2022 Court No.

Item 25 ssi In the matter of:- Amit Das 08.03.

Mr. Asraf Mondal Mr. Md. Bani Israil ...for the petitioner Mr. D. Chatterjee Mr. Imran Ali Ms. Manisha Sharma ...for the State This is an application challenging a warrant of arrest issued against the petitioner.

Let a copy of this application be served upon Mr. D. Chatterjee and Mr. Imran Ali, learned advocates, who are present in Court today and who ordinarily appear on behalf of the State. Their engagement may be regularised in due course by the competent authority of the State. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is an accused in this case. After obtaining bail, he had been regularly attending Court. Due to miscommunication, with this learned Advocate before the trial Court during the COVID times, the petitioner was once absent before the learned trial Court. However, his prayer for adjournment was rejected and a warrant of arrest was issued. The same remained pending. The petitioner wants to join the proceeding at the earliest.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State submits that the petitioner may be directed to surrender

before the learned trial Court at the earliest. I have heard the submissions of the learned counsels appearing on behalf of the petitioner and the State and have perused the revision petition. It is the petitioner's case that he had been regularly attending the learned trial Court after obtaining the bail and on a particular day, he could not attend the Court and prayed for adjournment. The same was turned down. However, at present, he wants to join the proceeding at the earliest.

In view of the above, the warrant of arrest issued against the petitioner shall remain stayed for a period of four weeks from this date.

The petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned trial Court within four weeks from this date. In the event the petitioner surrenders before the learned trial Court within the stipulated time and prays for bail, such application shall be considered in accordance with law.

With these observations, the revisional application is disposed of.

Urgent photostat certified copies of this order may be delivered to the learned Advocates for the parties, if applied for, upon compliance of all formalities. (Jay Sengupta, J.)