08.09.2026 IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Item No.20 CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS JURISDICTION Ct.No.35 dc. Rejected C.R.M. (M) 817 of 2026 In Re : An Application for bail under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 filed in connection with Nandigram Police Station Case No. 267 of 2025 dated 30.04.2025 under Sections 137(2)/140(2)/3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Sections 6(1)/12 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. And In Re : Sk Asraf ... Petitioner. Mr. Milon Mukherjee, Sr. Adv., Ms. Minoti Gomes, Mr. Mazahar Hossain Chowdhury ... For the Petitioner. Mr. Gouranga Kumar Das, APP, Mr. Rajesh Kumar Shah ... For the State. Ms. Sumita Sarkar, Ms. Akshita Nath ... For the de facto complainant. Report submitted by the learned advocate appearing for the State along with the acknowledgement of the private opposite party no.2/de facto complainant be kept with the record. Memo of Evidence submitted on behalf of the State be also kept with the record. Learned senior advocate appearing for the petitioner has drawn the discrepancies in the cross-examination of the evidence of the victim and prays for renewal of bail of the petitioner. 2 Learned advocate appearing for the de facto complainant opposes the prayer for bail. Learned advocate appearing for the State opposes the prayer for bail and produces the case diary. I have taken into account the statement of the victim recorded under Section 183 of BNSS as also the medico-legal examination report. Additionally, I have also considered the anxiety expressed by the learned senior advocate for the petitioner that only one witness till date has been examined out of 13 witnesses cited by the prosecution. There are few relations whose evidence is yet to be recorded. Having considered the same, at this stage, I am not inclined to release the petitioner on bail. As such, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is rejected. Petitioner would be at liberty to approach this Court after the evidence of the relative witnesses which have been cited in the charge-sheet is over. Let the same be completed by 31.12.2026. The application for bail, being CRM (M) 817 of 2026, is, thus, disposed of. Learned advocate for the State would communicate this order to the learned Trial Court forthwith. 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.)