25.08.2026 Court No.35. D/L.985. Rakib (Rejected) CRM (M) 1560 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 Suri Police Station case no. 172 of 2024 dated 27.03.2024 under Sections 363/365/302/201/120B/34 of the Indian Penal Code read with Sections 25/27 of the Arms Act. And In the matter of : Amal Murmu ……Petitioner. Mr. Sourav Chatterjee, Sr. Adv, Mr. Saryati Dutta Mr. Priyankar Ganguly .....for the Petitioner. Ms. Sima Biswas .....for the De-facto complainant. Mr. Amal Kumar Datta ……for the State. Learned senior advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that petitioner is in custody for two years five months and only 13 witnesses till date has been examined when prosecution has relied 56 witnesses in the charge-sheet. Petitioner prays that there is no scope of the trial being taken to its logical conclusion as on repeated occasions the witnesses are not being represented and even if the witnesses are present, the trial Court’s Public Prosecutor is reluctant to examine the witness on dock. Learned advocate appearing for the State opposes the prayer for bail and submits that he has instruction that the number of witnesses proposed to be finally examined would be reduced. 2 Learned advocate appearing for the de-facto complainant is present and submits that in a gruesome manner the deceased was murdered. I have taken into account the genesis of the present case where two stone quarry owners had a dispute and on the basis of the same the prosecution case speaks that the offence has been committed. Materials suggest that petitioner’s involvement is thickly connected, however, to invoke the provision of Article 21 of the Constitution of India at this stage would not be fit and proper in view of the vital stage of the case. Prosecution is granted six months time to examine all the vital witnesses. Petitioner will renew his prayer for bail after the aforesaid time period is over. With the aforesaid observations, CRM (M) 1560 of 2026 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.)