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SIDDHARTHA ROY CHOWDHURY
Shyama Prasad Agarwala – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
SIDDHARTHA ROY CHOWDHURY, J.
1. This application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is filed by the petitioners seeking quashment of the proceeding of G.R. Case No. 561 of 2020 corresponding to Alipurduar Case No. 116 of 2020 dated 7th March, 2022 under Section 380/420/406/467/468/471/477A/120B/34 of the Indian Penal Code.
2. Briefly stated, Sri Sanjoy Pramanik, Manager (Garden) Patkapara Tea Estate of Dooars Plantation and Industrial Limited, Alipurduar informed the Inspector-in-charge of Alipurduar in writing that the accused persons Shayma Prasad Agarwal, Naresh Agarwal and Piyush Agarwal were the erstwhile Directors and in active control over the management of Dooars and Plantation and Industries Limited (hereinafter referred as ‘DPIL’). They owned tea gardens under the name and style “Patkapara Tea Estate.” The other accused persons namely Manju Agarwal, Vinay Agarwal, Anushree Agarwal, Vrinda Agarwal, Pankaj Bhognagarwala and Amit Bhognagarwala are their relatives and family members. The accused persons were in-charge of day to day running of the said company till the month of January 20, 2017.
3. It is alleged that the company DPIL was holding an amou
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