Karan Pradhan and Ors. v. the State of West Bengal and Anr.
CRIMINAL REVISION – TRANSFER OF TRIAL VENUE
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: transfer of Sessions Case; venue of trial; Section 177 CrPC; proper and ordinary venue; place of offence; Mal Bazar Police Station; Case No. 481 of 2022 (21.06.2022); Sessions Case No. 235 of 2023; withdrawal and transmission of case; Additional District and Sessions Judge, Mal Bazar; Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench; Criminal Revisional Jurisdiction; C.R.R. 76 of 2025; petitioners Karan Pradhan & Ors.; respondent The State of West Bengal; counsel Bikash Singha (petitioners), Aditi Shankar Chakraborty and Ujjwal Luksom (State); Dr. Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee, J.; decided 07.03.2025.
What did the court decide?
Transfer of Sessions Case No. 235 of 2023 ordered: the learned District and Sessions Judge, Jalpaiguri to withdraw it from the Court of learned Additional District and Sessions Judge, Jalpaiguri and transmit it to the Court of learned Additional District and Sessions Judge, Mal Bazar, Jalpaiguri within three weeks from communication of the order; transferee Court to proceed from the stage already reached; copies of the order to be sent to both courts for compliance.