Deben Barman And ORS. v. State Of West Bengal

25.11.2025

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

Item No.151 CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS JURISDICTION Ct.No.35 dc.

Rejected C.R.M. (M) 2004 of 2025 In Re : An Application for bail under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, filed in connection with Kaliyaganj Police Station Case No. 498 of dated 29.11.2024 under Sections 115(2)/118(2)/103/109(1)/74/351(2)/3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (G.R. No. 2662 of 2024).

And In Re : Deben Barman and others ... Petitioners.

Mr. Ranjan Neogi, Mr. Moyukh Mukherjee, Mr. Karan Bapuli ... For the Petitioners.

Mr. Adil Badr, Ms. Jonaki Saha ... For the State.

Mr. Joydeep Biswas, Mr. Rishav Singh, Mr. Koushik Ghosh, Mr. Soumalya Dutta ... For the de facto complainant.

Learned advocate appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are in custody for 11 months, they are innocent of the charges and have been detained unnecessarily. There are 24 witnesses on which the prosecution intends to rely upon to prove its case. Learned advocate for the de facto complainant is present and opposes the prayer for bail.

Learned advocate appearing for the State submits that on 2nd December, 2025 date has been fixed for consideration of charges.

Having considered the stage at which the petitioners have approached this Court, I am not inclined to release the petitioners on bail. As such, the prayer for bail of the petitioners is rejected.

Petitioners are granted liberty to renew their prayer for bail after examination of the complainant is over. The application for bail, being CRM (M) 2004 of 2025, is, thus, dismissed.

All concerned parties shall act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court.

Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance with all requisite formalities.

(Tirthankar Ghosh, J.)