Abu Bakkar Siddique v. The State Of West Bengal

10.01.2022 Item no.38.

Court No.1.

AB (Rejected) CIRCUIT BENCH OF CALCUTTA HIGH COURT AT JALPAIGURI (Via Video Conference) CRM 1213 of 2021 In Re: An Application for Bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Falakata Police Station Case No.439 of 2018 Dated 26.10.2018 under Sections 20(b)(ii)(c) of the NDPS Act And In the matter of: Abu Bakkar Siddique ......Petitioner.

Mr. Arnab Saha ......for the Petitioner.

Mr. Nilay Chakraborty, Mr. Sagnik Sankar Sikdar......for the State.

Commercial quantity of ganja was recovered from the possession of the petitioner as would appear from the seizure list, which has been produced by the State.

In view of the restriction in Section 37 of the NDPS Act, we are not inclined to allow the petitioner's payer for bail. C.R.M. 1213 of 2021 is, accordingly, dismissed. We are told that the petitioner is in custody for about two and half years. Charge was framed on August 16, 2019. In view of the long detention of the petitioner, we request the learned Trial Court to expedite the trial and bring the same to its logical conclusion as soon as possible and preferably within a

period of 15 months from the date of a copy of this order being placed before the learned Trial Court.

All parties shall act in terms of server copy of the order downloaded from the official website of this Court. (Aniruddha Roy, J.) (Arijit Banerjee, J.)