29.07.2026 IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Item No.99 CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS JURISDICTION Ct.No.35 dc. Allowed C.R.M. (NDPS) 1520 of 2026 In Re : An Application for bail under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 filed in connection with DRI Case No. DRI/KZU/NDPS/ENQ- 80/2025 dated 12.09.2025 under Sections 20(b)(ii)(c)/21(c)/23(c)/25/27A/29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. And In Re : Sayantan Dutta ... Petitioner. Mr. Sandipan Ganguly, Sr. Adv., Mr. Dipanjan Dutta, Mr. Sudipta Nayan Ghosh, Mr. Saikat Ghosh, Ms. Shreelekha De ... For the Petitioner. Mr. Nadeem Sulaiman, Mr. Tapan Bhanja ... For the DRI Authority. Learned senior advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in custody for more than ten months and the complaint has already been submitted before the jurisdictional court and further, the trial of the case would consume substantial period of time. As such, petitioner prays for bail. Learned advocate appearing for the DRI Authority, on the other hand, opposes the prayer for bail and submits that there were money trail and CDRs with the accused from whom seizure has been made. Petitioner has strong connection with the principal accused. As such, the rigours of Section 37 of the NDPS Act are attracted. 2 I have taken into account the locus of other accused viz. Amir Uddin Ahammed @ Amir Uddin Ahammad who has been granted bail on 23.06.2026 in CRM(NDPS) 710 of 2026. Having regard to the factual circumstances which were taken into account for releasing the said accused on bail, I am inclined to release the present petitioner also on bail. As such, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is allowed. Accordingly, the petitioner viz., Sayantan Dutta shall be released on bail upon furnishing bond of Rs.20,000/-, with two sureties of Rs.10,000/- each, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the learned Judge, Bench-I (NDPS), City Sessions Court, Calcutta. If on bail, the petitioner shall be physically present on each and every date so fixed by the learned Trial Court and shall not leave the jurisdiction of Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority till further orders of this Court. Additionally, the petitioner shall meet with the Investigating Officer of the case or any officer assigned by the Deputy Director, DRI once in a week till further orders of this Court. The application for bail, being CRM (NDPS) 1520 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. 3 Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance with all requisite formalities. (Tirthankar Ghosh, J.)