Jagarnath Shaw v. the State of West Bengal and Ors.
Criminal investigation – Transfer of investigation – Writ petition (Calcutta High Court, Appellate Side)
Case brief
What is this about?
Calcutta High Court, W.P.A 2143 of 2025, Jagarnath Shaw v. State of West Bengal & Anr., order dated 20.06.2025 by Amrita Sinha, J.: stalled criminal investigation by Bally Police Station transferred to the Detective Department of the Howrah Police Commissionerate; supervision by an Assistant Commissioner of Police-rank officer; time-bound completion directed; immediate handover of case documents; forensic report to be obtained from the Cyber Forensics and Digital Evidence Examiner’s Laboratory, CID, Salt Lake, Kolkata; writ petition disposed of. Keywords: transfer of investigation, police investigation delay, writ petition, forensic report, Howrah Police Commissionerate, Bally Police Station.
What did the court decide?
Transfer of the pending investigation to the Detective Department of the Howrah Police Commissionerate, to be supervised by a senior officer of the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police and concluded in a time-bound manner without unnecessary delay; the Investigating Officer of Bally Police Station to immediately hand over all case documents to the new agency; the new Investigating Officer to promptly obtain the forensic report from the Cyber Forensics and Digital Evidence Examiner’s Laboratory, CID, and the laboratory to forward the report immediately.