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Sourav Mondal @ Paltu Mondal v. State of West Bengal

Calcutta HC10 Apr 2026CRM (A)/1059/2026

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Anticipatory bail rejected; murder/abduction/kidnapping case; Sourav Mondal @ Paltu Mondal; Basirhat P.S. Case No. 855 dated 16.06.2013; Sections 302/201/34 IPC; Section 438 CrPC 1973; Section 482 BNSS 2023; incriminating case diary materials; independent eye-witness abduction on motor bike; post mortem report; criminal antecedents; NDPS acquittals; absconding since 2013; charge sheet 2014; Jay Sengupta J.; decision dated 10.04.2026; CRM (A) 1059 of 2026.

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Considering the submissions, the incriminating materials available in the case diary and the criminal antecedent of the petitioner, the court did not consider this a fit case for granting anticipatory bail. ¶10

Sourav Mondal @ Paltu Mondal Vs State of West Bengal — Narcotics (NDPS) | Calcutta HC (2026)

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10.04.2026 Court No.28 Item No.8 tbsr Reject

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CRM (A) 1059 of 2026 In Re: - An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973/Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 in connection with Basirhat P.S. Case No. 855 dated 16.06.2013 under Sections 302/201/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

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In the matter of: Sourav Mondal @ Paltu Mondal

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….Petitioner. Mr. Jyotirmoy talukdar …for the petitioner Mr. Anand Keshari Ms. Trisha Rakshit … for the State

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Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is absolutely innocent. He has been falsely implicated in this case. The particular Police Station has been continuously falsely implicating him in several criminal cases. In 2015 there was an NDPS Act case started against him. He got an acquittal in 2016. Within a month, he was again implicated in another NDPS Act. He was again acquitted in that case. After that he was falsely implicated in several other cases. The petitioner was not named in the instant FIR. The present case was registered on 16.06.2013. The petitioner was not aware of it. The petitioner was apparently named in the charge sheet submitted in the year 2014. But, in spite of his custody in respect of other cases, he was never shown arrested or arrested in connection with the instant case.

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Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State strongly opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. He submits that the petitioner has remained absconding since 2013 in respect of the present case. It may have to be looked into as to why the Investigating

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Officer of the case did not try to find his criminal antecedents and show him arrested in connection with the present case when he was in custody in respect of another case. So far as the implication in the present case is concerned according to the statement of an independent eye-witness present at page 7 of the case diary, the petitioner and another co-accused abducted the victim in a motor bike. Soon thereafter, his dead body was recovered. He also relies on the post mortem report and the statements of other witnesses. Learned counsel also submits that the petitioner has been implicated in several cases including two other murder cases.

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Considering the above, the incriminating materials available in the case diary and the criminal antecedent of the petitioner, I do not consider this to be a fit case for granting anticipatory bail.

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The application for anticipatory bail is, thus, rejected.

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Urgent photostat certified copies of this order may be delivered to the learned Advocates for the parties, if applied for, upon compliance of all formalities.

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(Jay Sengupta, J.)

Sourav Mondal @ Paltu Mondal v. State of West Bengal

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