Judgment · High Court

Ms. Sharmistha China Mr. Saswata Gopal Mukherji, Ld. PP Mr. Partha Pratim Das Ms. Manasi Roy …for the petitioner. … for the State. Petitioner renews the prayer for bail. Learned Advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in custody in excess of 1550 days. There is hardly any possibility of trial concluding any time soon since the prosecution are to examine 56 witnesses with only few of them being actually examined. Learned Advocate appearing for the State refers to the earlier orders of rejection. Considering the fact that there is hardly any material change in circumstances subsequent to the earlier orders of rejection, we are unable to grant bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is rejected. However, we request the learned Trial Judge to invoke the provisions of Section 309 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 2 and not to grant any unnecessary adjournments to any of the parties. C.R.M. (DB) 1147 of 2022 is dismissed. (Debangsu Basak, J.) (Bibhas Ranjan De, J.)