Tahara Mondal @ Tahura @ Tohora v. The State Of West Bengal

07.

21.02.2025 Court No.26 (Pritam) (Rejected)

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS JURISDICTION CRM (DB) 4197 of 2024 In Re: - An application for bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 / Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, arising out of Chapra Police Station Case No.55/2021 dated 05.02.2021 under Sections 302/34 of the IPC, 1860.

And In the matter of: - Tahara Mondal @ Tahura @ Tohara .....petitioner.

Mr. Amanul Islam, Mr. Sourav Mukherjee ...for the petitioner.

Mr. Saibal Bapuli, Ld. A.P.P., Mr. Debanik Das ....for the State.

1. Petitioner renews his prayer bail.

2. Learned advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that, the petitioner is in custody in excess of 4 (four) years. He submits that, only 10 prosecution witnesses were examined.

3. Learned advocate appearing for the State submits that, the prayer for bail was rejected five times earlier. He submits that, the trial is in progress.

4. Out of 38 prosecution witnesses, only 20 were examined.

5. Petitioner stands implicated in murder. Mother and her daughter were murdered.

6. Materials placed on record implicate the petitioner in such crime.

7. Considering the gravity of the offence, the involvement of the petitioner in the murder and on the basis of materials on record, we are not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner.

8. We request the learned trial judge to expedite the disposal of the trial. In doing so, learned trial judge is requested not to grant any unnecessary adjournments to any of the parties and to fix consecutive dates of trial as expeditiously in terms of the matter pending before the court.

9. The prayer for bail is, thus, rejected.

10.

CRM (DB) 4197 of 2024 is disposed of.

(Debangsu Basak, J.) (Md. Shabbar Rashidi, J.)