Ershad Ekbal @ Shabbir v. State Of West Bengal

16.07.2025 Item No.16 Ct.No.34 rc.

Reject C.R.M. (M) 505 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, 2023 in connection with Maidan Police Station Case No. 75 of 2022 dated 05.08.2022. And In Re :

Ershad Ekbal @ Shabbir ... Petitioner Mr. Jyotirmoy Talukder ... for the Petitioner Mr. Saryati Datta Mr. Debanshu Ghorai ... for the State Supplementary affidavit filed by the petitioner is taken on record.

Report submitted by the State is taken on record. The petitioner renews his prayer for bail.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in custody for about three years and trial has not proceeded much after his prayer for bail was rejected earlier.

The petitioner has been identified in TI parade. Some of the looted cash has been recovered from his possession. CCTV footage of the place of occurrence prima facie suggests presence of the petitioner at the spot at the relevant time. The prosecution proposes to examine thirty witnesses in all out of whom three witnesses have been examined in part.

Considering the material on record prima facie suggesting involvement of the petitioner in the alleged offence, prayer for bail is rejected at this stage. Learned trial Court is directed to expedite the trial without granting any unnecessary adjournment to either of the parties.

The bail application is disposed of.

Case Diary is 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.)