14.07.2026 Court No.35. D/L.02. Rakib (Rejected) CRM (M) 2823 of 2025 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 New Township Police Station case no. 131 of 2025 dated 11.10.2025 under Sections 70(1) / 74 / 76 / 78 / 304(2) / 308(2) / 310(2) / 238 / 317(2) /61(2) / 126(2) / 127(7) /351(2) / 351(3) / 75 / 79 / 64(1) / 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. And In the matter of : Wasef Ali ……Petitioner. Mr. Sekhar Kr. Basu, Sr. Adv, Mr. Prajnadeepta Roy Ms. Sohini Kundu Mr. Debojyoti Goswami .....for the Petitioner. Mr. L. Vishal Kumar Mr. Neel Chakraborty ……for the State. Learned senior advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that petitioner is in custody for 276 days and there is no prospect of the trial being concluded in near future. Additionally, the materials which surfaced in course of the evidence including the statement of the victim under Section 183 of the BNSS and the statement before the doctor do not inspire confidence for implication of the present petitioner, as such the petitioner may be released on bail. Learned advocate appearing for the State on the other hand opposes the prayer for bail and submits that out of 23 witnesses cited in the charge-sheet 16 witnesses have been examined. I have taken into account the evidence of the victim which has been placed before this Court and on assessment of the same, I 2 am not inclined to release the petitioner on bail at this stage as the case is at an advance stage. Learned trial Court would expedite the process, as it had been doing, to complete the prosecution witnesses within a reasonable period of time. With the aforesaid observations, CRM (M) 2823 of 2025 is dismissed. 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.)