14.07.2026 Sl. No. DL 473 Court No. 35 Asraf, A.R.(Ct.) In the High Court at Calcutta Criminal Miscellaneous Jurisdiction Case No. CRM (M) 1184 of 2026 In Re : An application for bail under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 corresponding to Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 filed in connection with Dholahat Police Station case no.411 of 2021 dated 17.10.2021 under Sections 367, 368 and 370 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. -AND- In the matter of : SAMSUDDIN SEKH @ DHOPA ……Petitioner For the Petitioner : Mr. Abdus Salam …Advocate For the State : Mr. Amol Kumar Datta …Advocate 1. Learned advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in custody for four years and six months and is innocent of the charges. He has been falsely implicated in this case and there has been no progress in the trial since the month of December, 2025 when the prayer for bail of the petitioner was lastly rejected. Learned advocate for the petitioner has produced the evidence of the witnesses. 2. Learned advocate appearing on behalf of the State opposes the prayer for bail. 3. I have taken into the account the statement of PW 5, Hasinur Khatun. I have also taken into account the statement of the Page 2 said victim under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and the evidence before the Court where she had identified the present petitioner. 4. The present is a case where victim girls were recovered from Delhi by the investigating agency and the girls / ladies belonged to remote places of 24 Parganas (South). 5. Having considered the manner in which trafficking was carried out at the behest of this petitioner and others, I am not inclined to release the petitioner on bail. 6. Accordingly, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is rejected. 7. Learned Trial Court would expedite the procedure of trial as directed earlier. 8. With the aforesaid observations, CRM(M) 1184 of 2026 is dismissed at this stage. 9. Memo of evidence filed by the State be kept with the record. 10. Case diary be returned to the learned advocate appearing for the State. 11. All parties shall act on the basis of server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court. 12. Urgent photostat certified copies of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance of all necessary formalities. ( Tirthankar Ghosh, J. )