17.07.2026 IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Item No.455 CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS JURISDICTION Ct.No.35 dc. Rejected C.R.M. (M) 1244 of 2026 In Re : An Application for bail under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 filed in connection with Sonamukhi Police Station Case No. 285 of 2025 dated 12.08.2025 under Sections 126(2)/103(1)/61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 read with Sections 25/27 of the Arms Act, 1959. And In Re : Samrat Khan @ Bapi and others ... Petitioners. Mr. Sekhar Kumar Basu, Sr. Adv., Mr. Diptangshu Basu ... For the Petitioners. Mr. Gouranga Kumar Das, APP, Mr. Neel Chakraborty ... For the State. Learned senior advocate appearing for the petitioners submits that petitioner no.1 is in custody for 338 days, petitioner no.2 is in custody for 332 days, petitioner no.3 is in custody for 190 days and petitioner no.4 is in custody for 261 days. According to the learned senior advocate, petitioners are unnecessarily languishing in jail and two of the accused persons are still absconding. It has also been submitted that there is no possibility of the trial concluding in near future. As such, petitioners pray for bail. Learned advocate appearing for the State, on the other hand, opposes the prayer for bail and draws the attention of the Court to the statement of eyewitness recorded under Section 183 of BNSS. Learned advocate submits that all the accused persons have been named by the eyewitness. 2 So far as the petitioner no.4 is concerned, his prayer for bail was earlier rejected as he was continuously in touch with the petitioner no.3, viz. Hakim Sk. Having considered the complicity of the present petitioners, at this stage, I am not inclined to release the petitioners on bail. As such, the prayer for bail of the petitioners is rejected. So far as the absconding accused persons are concerned, learned Trial Court would exhaust the process of law as charge-sheet has been submitted and thereafter split up the trial of the case for further progress. Memo of Evidence submitted by the learned advocate appearing for the State be kept with the record. The application for bail, being CRM (M) 1244 of 2026, 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.)