Vikash Mundhra v. State Of West Bengal

D/L 136 24.11.2025 Bpg.

Allowed C.R.M. (M) 2413 of 2025 In Re: An application for bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, corresponding to Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 filed in connection with Malipanchghora Police Station Case No.155 of 2023 dated 17.07.2023 under Sections 420/406/468/471/409 of the Indian Penal Code; Vikash Mundhra

Versus

The State of West Bengal Mr. Milon Mukherjee Mr. Soumya Basu Roy Chowdhuri.

...for the petitioner.

Mr. Kaushik Kundu Mr. Dipankar Paramanick.

...for the State.

Learned senior advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in custody for 2 years 2 months and out of 9 witnesses proposed to be examined, one witness has only been examined till date.

Learned advocate for the State, on the other hand, submits that the delay in the trial is only for the accused having dragged the case on the grounds of maintainability of the charges and a discharge application being filed.

Be that as it may, the case is completely based on documents. All the documents are in the custody of the prosecution. It has been submitted that the possible bank accounts which belong to the petitioner has already been attached although without any successful recovery.

Having regard to the period of the detention of the

petitioner, I am inclined to release the petitioner on bail. Accordingly, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is allowed. The petitioner, namely, Vikash Mundhra shall be released on bail upon furnishing bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand only) with two sureties of Rs.10,000/- each, one of whom must be local to the satisfaction of the learned 1st Special Judge, Howrah.

If on bail, the petitioner shall be physically present on each and every date of trial and shall not leave the district of Howrah without the permission of the learned 1st Special Judge, Howrah. In case there is violation of the aforesaid conditions, the learned special court would be at liberty to cancel the bail of the petitioner without further reference to this Court. Accordingly, CRM (M) 2413 of 2025 is allowed. All 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 of all requisite formalities.

(Tirthankar Ghosh, J.)