Alai Mondal v. State Of West Bengal

08.12.2021 tkm/ct 28 C.R.M. 6206 of 2021 sl no. 84 In Re : An application for bail under section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Chapra P.S case no. 143/2020 dated 30.4.2020 under section 21(C) of the NDPS Act And In Re : Alai Mondal ........ petitioner Mr. Ayan Bhattacherjee Mr. Mir Anowar ...... for the petitioner Mr. Swapan Banerjee Mr. Suman De ...... for the State Statements of witnesses including contemporaneous documents i.e. seizure memo prima facie disclose recovery of 50 bottles of phensydle containing codeine mixture above commercial quantity from the possession of the petitioner. In view of the aforesaid fact and in view of the statutory restrictions under section 37 of the NDPS, we are not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner.

Accordingly, the prayer for bail is rejected. Trial court is directed to expedite the trial and conclude the same at an early date preferably within one year from the next date fixed before it for recording evidence without granting unnecessary adjournments to either of the parties.

(Bivas Pattanayak, J.) (Joymalya Bagchi, J.)