17.07.2026 Serial no. 445 [G.S.D] CRM (M) 1233 of 2026 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 SC Case No. 291(11) of 2021 in connection with Chapra PS Case No. 55 of 2021 dated 05.02.2021 u/s 302/201/120B/34 of the IPC. -And- In the matter of : Tahura Mondal @ Tohara … Petitioner(s) Mr. Sumanta Das … for the Petitioner(s) Dr. Prodip Banerjee, ld. APP Mr. Bikash Kr. Singh … for the State-respondent(s) Learned advocate for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in custody for more than four years five months and the court is lying vacant. Learned advocate also submits that there is no possibility of the trial being concluded in the near future. Learned advocate for the State has drawn the attention of the court to the statement of the witnesses whose statement was recorded under section 164 of the Cr.P.C. The attention has also been drawn to the seizure list witnesses. I have taken into account the locus of the present petitioner against whom the accusations are that she called the deceased for making a gold chain of her daughter. The deceased and her daughter had been to the house of the 2 present petitioner; subsequently, they were not found and the bodies of both mother and the daughter were recovered in close vicinity of the petitioner’s house. Subsequently, in course of the investigation, the gold chain was recovered pursuant to the leading statement of the present petitioner. Having considered that out of the 34 witnesses cited in the charge-sheet, 29 witnesses have already been examined, I am not inclined to enlarge the petitioner on bail at this stage. Hence, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is Rejected. However, the learned trial court would, immediately after taking the charge, give priority to the evidence of the witnesses and fix a regular schedule so that the evidence of the prosecution witnesses is completed within a period of six months. Accordingly, CRM (M) 1233 of 2026 is dismissed. 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.) 3