Ajimul Haque v. The State Of West Bengal

CIRCUIT BENCH OF CALCUTTA HIGH COURT 07.06.2023 AT JALPAIGURI Court No.01 Item No. 45 Rejected sg CRM (A) 260 of 2023 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Dilhata Police Station Case No. 171 of 2018 dated 06.05.2018 under Sections 147/148/149/186/332/333/353/307/379 of the Indian Penal Code and section 27/28 of the Arms Act read with section 3/4 of the E.S. Act and read with section 9/10 of Maintenance of Public Order Act and read with section 3 of Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act. And In Re: Ajimul Haque Petitioner Mr. Sudip Guha For the Petitioner Mr. Nilay Chakraborty Mr. Chattu Roy For the State The petitioner is absconding for five years.

No justifiable reason is shown for such absconsion although we find from record that a few accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail. But the fact remains that because of the absconsion of the petitioner, the trial cannot proceed. Under such circumstances, we allow the petitioner to surrender before jurisdictional court within a period of two weeks from date failing which, he shall be arrested forthwith.

In the event, he surrenders to the jurisdictional court within the aforesaid period, we request the learned jurisdictional Court to consider the application for bail strictly on merits and not to be influenced by any other order or by the observation made by us in this order.

CRM (A) 260 of 2023 is, thus, disposed of.

The petitioner shall not be arrested for a period of two weeks from date. All parties shall act on the server copies of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court.

(Raja Basu Chowdhury, J) (Soumen Sen, J)