POLICE STATION DD CASE No. 01 of 2022 · Calcutta High Court

Mr. Bibaswan Bhattacharya, Ms. Rupannita Laha Ms. Trina Mitra ... Petitioner. ... For the Petitioner. ... For the State. Learned advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in custody for 3years 11 months and the prosecution has cited 69 witnesses in support of its case. Till date, only six witnesses have been examined. Petitioner prays for bail on any stringent condition. Learned advocate appearing for the State, on the other hand, opposes the prayer for bail and submits that prosecution proposes to examine 40 witnesses and six witnesses have already been examined. It has also been canvassed that from the custody of the present petitioner, certain documents have been recovered. There were cash transactions on the basis of which motorcycle was recovered and used in the commission of alleged offence. As such, petitioner is not similarly situated as the other accused viz. 2 Avinash Rout @ Avinash Kumar Rawat who has granted bail on 21.11.2025 in CRM (M) 2281 of 2025.

The ground for granting bail to the other accused was delay in the trial and never on the merits of the case. The petitioner’s complicity, prima facie, appears to be thickly connected with the offence, but the same is subject to proof by the court during the course of trial. Having considered the period of detention of the petitioner for 3 years 11 months in custody, I am of the view that further detention of the present petitioner in connection with the instant case is unwarranted. As such, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is allowed. Accordingly, the petitioner viz., Vikash Kumar Pandey shall be released on bail upon furnishing bond of Rs.20,000/-, with two sureties of Rs.10,000/- each, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Alipore. If on bail, the petitioner shall be physically present on each and every date so fixed by the learned Trial Court and shall not leave the jurisdiction of the district of South 24- Parganas without the leave of the learned Trial Court.

Report submitted by the learned advocate appearing for the State be kept with the record. Case diary be returned to learned advocate for the State. The application for bail, being CRM (M) 2657 of 2025, is, thus, disposed of. 3 All concerned parties shall act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance with all requisite formalities. (Tirthankar Ghosh, J.)