Afjal Ali Sha @ Abjal Shaukat Sha vs State of West Bengal

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2023 Supreme(SC) 230

SURYA KANT, J. K. MAHESHWARI
Afjal Ali Sha @ Abjal Shaukat Sha – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. P.S. Patwalia, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR Ms. Bansuri Swaraj, Adv. Mr. Siddhesh Kotwal, Adv. Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Manya Hasija, Adv. Mr. Akash Singh, Adv. Mr. Nihar Dharmadhikari, Adv. Ms. Sampriti Baksi, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ravinder Singh, Adv. Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv. Mr. Srisatya Mohanty, Adv. Mr. Raveesha Gupta, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Mantika Haryani, Adv. Ms. Aparajita Jamwal, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Chakravarty, Adv. Mr. Devvrat Singh, Adv. Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv. Ms. Somya Saxena, Adv. Mr. Archit Adlakha, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. V Giri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rohit Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Goutam Dey, Adv. Mr. Partha Sil, AOR Mr. Tavish Bhushan Prasad, Adv. Ms. Sayani Bhattacharya, Adv. Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv. Ms. Reshmi Rea Sinha, AOR Mr. Abhishek Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Mani Bhushan Sinha, Adv. Mr. Pranab Prakash, AOR Mr. Soumya Dutta, AOR Mr. Siddhant Upmanyu, Adv.

JUDGMENT

Surya Kant, J.

1. This transfer petition has been preferred under Section 406 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter, ‘CrPC’), read with Article 139A of the Constitution of India and Order 39 of the Supreme Court Rules, 2013. The Petitioner herein is the brother of one Kurban Sha (hereinafter, ‘Deceased’) and he seeks transfer of the criminal trial S.T. No. 1 (03) of 2020, arising out of FIR No. 495 of 2019 registered at PS Panskura, pending in the Court of Additional Sessions Judge, 3rd Court, Tamluk, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal (hereinafter, ‘Trial Court’), to a competent court in the State of Assam, primarily on the ground that a fair trial will not be possible in the State of West Bengal.

A. FACTS

2. The factual matrix is succinctly discussed below before delving into the aforesaid issue that arises for our consideration.

3. On the date of incident, i.e., 07.10.2019, the Deceased is alleged to have been shot in the neck by ‘certain unknown musclemen & goons’ when he was working in the office of a political party. The Deceased was immediately rushed to a hospital but was declared dead on arrival. On the next day, the subject FIR was lodged under Section 302 re

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2023 Supreme(SC) 230

SURYA KANT, J. K. MAHESHWARIAfjal Ali Sha @ Abjal Shaukat Sha – AppellantVersusState of West Bengal – Respondent

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SURYA KANT, J. K. MAHESHWARI
Afjal Ali Sha @ Abjal Shaukat Sha – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent