ORDER :

1. On the 12th of July, 2021, Haldia Police Station Case No. 80 of 2021 under Sections 341, 384, 506 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code was registered. The principal accused in the said F.I.R. is one Shyamal Adak. The writ petitioner Rajib Paul was a co-accused. The complainant Sk. Mobarak Ali, had stated that sometime in the year 2018, the said Shyamal Adak use to collect by extortion a sum of Rs. 100 per truck to allow loading of coal at the Haldia Dock Complex. The payment was received and recorded in a slip issued by the said Shyamal Adak and his associates inside the trade union office of the dock complex. On one such instance, the petitioner failed and refused to make payment, following which he was not allowed to load his truck with coal. The Petitioner was allowed to load his truck only after forking out of the said sum of Rs. 100. Due the pressure and intimidation by the said Shyamal Adak and his associates, the consignees stopped hiring the complainant which crippled his transport business.

2. The F.I.R. was registered at 10.35 pm, about 2 and half years after the incident. The date of occurrence is not mentioned. The writ petitioner applied for bail before the Magis