Jeker Skesaheb v. State Of West Bengal

24.06.2022 tkm/ct 28 C.R.M. (DB) 2009 of 2022 sl no. 42 In Re : An application for bail under section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Sagardighi PS case no. 392 of 2017 dated 1.9.2017 under sections 498A/302/201 IPC And In Re : Jeker Sk @ Saheb ........ petitioner Mr. Soumik Ganguli Mr. S Nandy ...... for the petitioner Mr. Prsun Kr Dutta Mr. S Deb Roy Md. Kutub Uddin ...... for the State Petitioner is in custody for more than four years. He submits he has been falsely implicated in the instant case. Learned lawyer for the State opposes the prayer for bail. We have considered the materials on record. Statements of witnesses and other materials show petitioner had murdered his wife.

In view of gravity of the offence, we are not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner.

Accordingly, the prayer for bail is rejected. However bearing in mind the protracted period of detention suffered by the petitioner we direct the trial court to conclude the trail at an early date preferably within one year from the next date fixed for recording evidence without giving unnecessary adjournments to either of the parties.

(Ananya Bandyopadhyay, J.) (Joymalya Bagchi, J.)