Manoranjan Shit And ANR. v. State Of West Bengal

11.06.2026 Court No.35.

D/L.12.

Rakib (Allowed) CRM (M) 933 of 2026 In Re: An Application for Bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973/Under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 in connection with Narendrapur Police Station case no. 122 of 2026 dated 27.01.2026 under Sections 11J/11L/26 of the West Bengal Fire and Emergency Services Act, 1950 and Sections 105(2)/223/288/118(2)/109/3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

And In the matter of : Manoranjan Shit & Anr.

......Petitioners.

Mr. Milon Mukherjee, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Sandipan Ganguly, Sr. Adv, Mr. Daanish Haque Mr. Amanul Islam Ms. Manaswita Mukherjee Mr. Md. Zohaib Rauf Mr. Abdul Zahid .....for the Petitioners.

Mr. Kallol Mondal, Ld. PP Mr. Krishnendu Bhattacharya Mr. Anamitra Banerjee ......for the State.

Learned advocate appearing for the petitioners submit that the petitioners are in custody for about 133 days and charge-sheet has been submitted before the jurisdictional Court. Learned Public Prosecutor opposes the prayer for bail and submits that the present petitioners are responsible for the alleged offence and there are volumes of materials in support of the contention relating to the complicity of the present petitioners before this Court. It has also been submitted that if the petitioners are released on bail they may tamper the evidence as also jeopardize the further progress of the trial. It has also been submitted that so far as the other accused are concerned, the State is in the process of

cancellation of bail. As such, the prayer for bail of the petitioners may be rejected.

I have taken into account the materials appearing in the Case Diary as also the factum that the investigating agency after thorough investigation has come to a conclusion that case has been made out under Section 105(2) of the BNS along with other cognizable offence. Having considered the period of detention of the present petitioners and the charge-sheet so submitted before the jurisdictional Court wherein the prosecution has relied upon 48 witnesses which will take substantial time to take the trial to its logical conclusion, I am of the opinion further detention of the present petitioners are unwarranted. As such, the prayer for bail of the petitioners is allowed.

Accordingly, petitioners namely, Manoranjan Shit and Raja Chakraborty shall be released on bail upon furnishing bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand only), with two sureties of Rs. 10,000 (Rupees Ten Thousand only) each, one of whom must be local to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Baruipur.

If on bail, the petitioners shall make themselves available on each and every date before the learned Trial Court and shall not leave the Sub-Division of Baruipur without the prior permission of the learned Trial Court.

Additionally, if on bail the petitioners shall till the charges are framed meet with the investigating officer of the Case once in a fortnight.

It would be for the learned trial Court subsequently to decide whether such condition would continue after the framing of the charges.

With the aforesaid observations CRM (M) 933 of 2026 is allowed.

All parties shall act in terms of server copy of the order downloaded from the official website of this Court. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance with all requisite formalities.

(Tirthankar Ghosh, J.)