07.07.2026 Serial no. 745 [G.S.D] CRM (M) 2702 of 2025 In re : An Application for Bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973/under Section 483 of the BNSS, 2023 in connection with POCSO Case No. 127 of 2023 arising out of Jagaddal PS Case No. 323 of 2023 dated 10.08.2023 u/s 366A/370/370A/372/373/120B of the IPC read with section 6/17/21 of the POCSO Act and u/s 3/4/5/6/7 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act. -And- In the matter of : Prasanta Chakraborty & Bappa … Petitioner(s) Mr. Moyukh Mukherjee Mr. Abhijit Singh Ms. Sagnika Banerjee … for the Petitioner(s) Mr. Sagar Saha Ms. Nayana Mukhopadhyay … for the State-respondent(s) Learned advocate for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in custody for two years ten months and the petitioner has been implicated only on the basis of statement of one of the minor victims as a manager of the rented house. It has also been contended that there are no overtacts attributed against the present petitioner. Learned advocate again submits that the petitioner is unnecessarily behind the custody and there is no possibility of the trial being concluded in the near future, as such, he prays that the petitioner may be released on bail. Learned advocate for the State opposes the prayer for bail and draws the attention of the court to the evidence 2 of the victim girl who has named the present petitioner. Learned advocate added that the petitioner was identified by the witnesses. Having regard to the period of detention of the present petitioner and the fact that 23 more witnesses are yet to be examined, I am of the opinion that the petitioner may be released on bail. Hence, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is Allowed. Accordingly, the petitioner viz, Prasanta Chakraborty & Bappa shall be released on bail upon furnishing bond of Rs.20,000/-(Rupees Twenty Thousand only), with two sureties of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand only) each, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the Learned ACJM, Barrackpore If on bail, the petitioner shall also make himself physically available on each and every date so fixed by the learned Special court/trial court and shall not leave the district of 24 Parganas North without prior permission of the learned Special Court/trial court. Additionally, the petitioner shall not enter into the jurisdiction of Jagaddal Police Station without prior permission of the learned Special Court/trial court. Memo of Evidence submitted be kept with the record. Report so submitted be also kept with the record. 3 Accordingly, CRM (M) 2702 of 2025 is allowed. Parties to act on a server copy of this order duly collected from the official website of the Hon’ble High Court, Calcutta. Urgent Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties subject to compliance with all requisite formalities. (Tirthankar Ghosh, J.)