Changez Alam v. State Of West Bengal

September 11, 2025 31 ARDR (Allowed) CRM (M) 1274 of 2025 In Re : An Application for bail under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 filed in connection with STF Police Station Case No. 26 of 2022 dated 24/8/2022 under Sections 120B/489B/489C/489A/489D of the Indian Penal Code Act.

And In Re :

Changez Alam ... Petitioner.

Adv. B. Hasna, Adv. B. Chattacharya, Adv. Aliul Islam, Adv. S. Haider, ... for the petitioner.

Adv. Arijit Ganguly, Adv. Ayana Dey, ... for the State.

The petitioner is in custody for more than three years and prays for bail.

Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer. It appears that fake Indian currency notes of Rs.70,000/- were recovered from the joint possession of the petitioner and the co-accused. Charge sheet has been submitted. One out of seven witnesses has been examined in full and examination of the second witness is in progress. Search and seizure are complete. The petitioner has no criminal antecedent.

Considering the period of detention of the petitioner as well as progress in trial, prayer for bail is allowed. The petitioner namely Changez Alam be released on bail upon furnishing bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand only), with two sureties of like amount each, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Calcutta

subject to the condition that he shall remain within the jurisdiction of STF police station and shall furnish the address where he shall henceforth reside before the learned trial Court, Investigating officer and the officer in charge of the concerned police station under whose jurisdiction he shall presently reside. The petitioner shall appear before the learned trial Court on every date of hearing and shall not intimidate witnesses or tamper with evidence in any manner whatsoever. He shall provide his mobile phone number before the abovenamed authorities and shall not change the same without prior intimation to them.

In the event the petitioner fails to adhere to any of the conditions stated above without justifiable cause, the learned trial Court shall be at liberty to cancel his bail in accordance with law without further reference to this Court.

The application for bail is disposed of.

Case Diary be returned.

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

(Suvra Ghosh, J.)