14.07.2026 Court No.35. D/L.486. Rakib (Rejected) CRM (M) 1202 of 2026 In Re: An Application for Bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973/Under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 in connection with Bhawanipore Police Station case no. 154 of 2022 dated 07.06.2022 under Sections 302/394/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 25/27 of the Arms Act. And In the matter of : Subodh Kumar Singh ……Petitioner. Mr. Mritunjoy Chatterjee Ms. Suchismita Chakraborty Mr. Debarnab Adhikary .....for the Petitioner. Ms. Shalini Bairagi Mr. Rajesh Kumar Shah ……for the State. Learned advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that the approver has been granted and the present petitioner is in custody for four years two months. Petitioner submits that there is no possibility of the trial being concluded in near future as prosecution has relied upon 70 witnesses and till date only 10 witnesses have been examined. Learned advocate appearing for the State opposes the prayer for bail and highlights that this is a double murder case at the time of committing robbery. It has also been submitted that the State has on assessment reduced the number of witnesses to 25, as such steps would be taken to conclude the trial at the earliest. Having regard to the submissions advanced by the learned advocate for the State, I direct the State to conclude rest of the 15 witnesses within a period of six months. 2 Learned trial Court would not allow any unnecessary adjournment to either of the parties and proceed with the trial of the case in spite of resolution of the local bar. If a witness is present, in that case the said witness be completed on the same date and the same be fixed for another date only under special circumstances be be recorded by the learned trial Court. With the aforesaid observations CRM (M) 1202 of 2026 is dismissed at this stage. All parties shall act in terms of server copy of the order 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.)