Bharti Airtel Ltd v. State Of West Bengal & ANR

06.09.2021

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

Item No.6 CRIMINAL REVISIONAL JURISDICTION Ct.No.34 dc.

C.R.R. 939 of 2012 (Via Video Conference) Bharti Airtel Limited versus State of West Bengal & Anr.

In Re: An Application under Section 401 read with Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Ms. Sutapa Sanyal, Mr. Anand Keshri, Mr. Arindam Chandra, Mr. Atish Ghosh, Ms. Eliza Seth ... For the Petitioner.

Mr. Arijit Ganguly, Mr. Sanjib Kumar Dan ... For the State.

Mr. Ayan Bhattacharjee ... For the Opposite Party No.2.

The petitioner before this Court is the accused no.1 which is a Company and challenges the proceedings being Complaint Case No. C-470 of 2011 pending before the learned Judicial Magistrate, 3rd Court, Barrackpore as also the order dated 24.11.2011.

In view of the observations made in CRR 682 of 2012, the principle, which has been relied upon for arriving at the conclusion in the said revisional application, applies to the present case also. Consequently the complaint case, being Complaint Case No. C-470 of 2011, is hereby quashed. Accordingly, CRR 939 of 2012 is allowed.

Interim order, if any, is made absolute.

All pending connected applications, if any, are consequently disposed of.

All parties shall act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court. (Tirthankar Ghosh, J.)