Ramchandra Bind v. State Of West Bengal

CRM 6356 of 2020 with CRAN 1 of 2020 14.09.2020 COURT NO. 16 ITEM NO. 12 das/nandy In Re:- An application for bail under section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on 04.09.2020 in connection with Parnasree Police Station Case No. 103 of 2019 dated 15.05.2019 under Sections 506/34 of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Special Case 81 of 2019). And In the matter of : Ramchandra Bind

...Petitioner

Mr. Jayanta Narayan Chatterjee, Advocate Mr. Nazir Ahmed, Advocate ...for the Petitioner Mr. Saibal Bapuli, Advocate Mrs. Sayanti Santra, Advocate ...for the State (REJECTED) Petitioner undertakes to affirm and stamp the petition/ application as per Rules within 48 hours of resumption of normal functioning of the Court. Subject to such undertaking, the application is taken up for hearing through video conference. The application being CRAN 1 of 2020 is accordingly disposed of.

Mr. Jayanta Narayan Chatterjee, learned Advocate appearing for the petitoner submits that the petitioner is in custody for about 450 days and there has been no progress in the case. He further submits that as the chargesheet has already been submitted, further detention is unwarranted.

Mr. Saibal Bapuli, learned Public Prosecutor-in-charge, opposes the prayer for bail and draws attention of this Court to the statement of the victim recorded under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. He further submits that the date for framing of charges has already been fixed by the learned trial Court. We have taken into account the statements of the victim along with other materials appearing in the case diary. On perusal of the same and on consideration of the nature and gravity of the offence, we

are not inclined to release the present petitioner on bail at this stage. The prayer for bail is thus rejected.

The application being CRM 6356 of 2020 is accordingly dismissed.

(Tirthankar Ghosh, J) (Harish Tandon, J)