10.07.2026 IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Item No.41 CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS JURISDICTION Ct.No.35 dc. Allowed C.R.M. (M) 2874 of 2025 In Re : An Application for bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 corresponding to Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 filed in connection with Liluah Police Station Case No. 165 of 2023 dated 16.04.2023 under Sections 341/323/325/307/34 of the Indian Penal Code and added Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. And In Re : Gopal Bhattacharjee ... Petitioner. Mr. Malay Bhattacharyya, Mr. Subhrajyoti Ghosh ... For the Petitioner. Mr. Gouranga Kumar Das, APP, Mrs. Ananya Chakraborty ... For the State. Learned advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in custody for about 3 years 3 months and till date, only 8 witnesses have been examined, out of the cited 15 witnesses. Learned advocate appearing for the State, on the other hand, opposes the prayer for bail as the statement of the eyewitnesses points to the direct involvement of the present petitioner along with others. I have taken into account the period of detention of the present petitioner and the time which will be consumed to take the trial to its logical conclusion. Having considered the same, I am inclined to release the petitioner on bail. As such, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is allowed. 2 Accordingly, the petitioner viz., Gopal Bhattacharjee 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, Howrah. If on bail, the petitioner shall be physically present on each and every date before the learned Trial Court and shall not leave the jurisdiction of the district of Howrah without prior permission of the learned Trial Court. Memo of Evidence submitted by the learned advocate appearing for the State be kept with the record. Mr. Gouranga Kumar Das, learned APP along with Mrs. Ananya Chakraborty, learned advocate was directed to appear on behalf of the State. Their appointment may be regularised by the concerned authorities. The application for bail, being CRM (M) 2874 of 2025, is, thus, disposed of. 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.)