Jarina Khatoon v. State Of West Bengal And ANR

08.08.2023 Sl. No.71 akd [Rejected] C. R. M. (DB) 3129 of 2023 In Re: An application for bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on 02.08.2023 in connection with Kulti Police Station Case No.349 of 2015 dated 21.09.2015 under Sections 366/376/34 of the Indian Penal Code read with Sections 4/5/6/7 of the Prevention of Immoral Traffic Act, 1956.

And In Re: Jarina Khatoon ... ... Petitioner Mr. Soumik Ganguli ... ... for the petitioner Mr. Sudip Ghosh .. Sr. Govt. Advocate Mr. Koushik Kundu ... ... for the State It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that co-accused viz. Rajan Paswan has been enlarged on bail. It is further submitted petitioner is not the principal accused. Accordingly, she renews her prayer for bail.

Learned Advocate for the State opposes the prayer for bail and submits petitioner was running a brothel. Victim was recovered from the brothel.

We have considered the materials on record. Bail prayer of the petitioner was rejected earlier on merits. Case involves trafficking of the victim lady for sexual exploitation. In view of the nature of offence, we are not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner at this stage. The application for bail is thus rejected.

(Ajay Kumar Gupta, J.) (Joymalya Bagchi, J.)