Keshab Purkait v. State Of West Bengal

rkd 22.09.2020 Ct. No.12 C.R.M. 6633 of 2020 (IA NO:CRAN 1 of 2020) (Through Video Conference) In Re: - An application for bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed in connection with Pratima P.S. Case No.

238 of dated 25/11/20118 under Sections 498A/304B/34 of the Indian Penal Code and under Sections 3/4 of the D.P. Act.

And In the matter of: - Keshab Purkait ....petitioner.

Mr. P. S. Mondal ...for the petitioner.

Mr. P. K. Datta, Mr. S. D. Roy ...for the State.

Petitioner undertakes to affirm and stamp the petition/application as per Rules within a month of resumption of normal functioning of the Court. Subject to such undertaking, the application is taken up for hearing through video conference. Accordingly, CRAN 1 of 2020 is disposed of.

Having considered the materials on record and bearing in the prima facie involvement of the petitioner in the murder of the housewife particularly in the light of the medical evidence which discloses homicidal death, we are not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner.

The application for bail is, thus, rejected.

(Kausik Chanda, J.) (Joymalya Bagchi, J.)