State Of West Bengal vs Saiful Ali - 2023 Supreme(Cal) 1381

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2023 Supreme(Cal) 1381

JOYMALYA BAGCHI, AJAY KUMAR GUPTA
State Of West Bengal – Appellant
Versus
Saiful Ali – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. Y.J. Dastoor, Sr. Adv., Mr. Phiroze Edulji, Adv., Mr. Sanjib Kumar Das, Adv., Mr. Sabyasachi Banerjee, Adv., Mr. Arindam Dey, Adv., Ms. Shreya Rastogi, Adv., Mr. Smarajit Basu, Adv., Mr. Amartya Kanjilal, Adv., Mr. Amitayu Kundu, Adv., Ms. Stuti Rai, Adv., Mr. Satadru Lahiri, Adv., Mr. Kaushik Gupta, Adv.
For the Respondent: Mr. Ranabir Roy Chowdhury, Adv., Md. Sabir Ahmed, Adv., Mr. Sanjay Banerjee, Adv., Mr. D.R. Ghosh, Adv.
For the de-facto complainant : Mr. Jayanta Narayan Chatterjee, Adv., Mr. Shirsendu Sinha Roy, Adv., Ms. Moumita Pandit, Adv., Mr. Supreem Naskar, Adv., Ms. Jayashree patra, Adv., Ms. Ritushree Banerjee, Adv., Ms. Pritha Sinha

JUDGMENT :

Joymalya Bagchi, J.

INDEX
Serial No.	Topic
A.	Prosecution case
B.	Evidence on record
	(a) Prosecution Evidence
	i. Related witnesses
	ii. Local witnesses
	iii. Witnesses regarding ownership and control of 8 bigha plot
	iv. Witnesses to the conspiracy
	v. Medical witnesses
	vi. Forensic experts
	vii. Judicial confession of Saiful and Bhola
	viii. Police witnesses
	(b) Defence witnesses
C.	Rape and murder of the victim
D.	Place of occurrence
E.	Time of occurrence
F.	Perpetrators of crime
	(a) Role of Saiful in the crime
	i. Judicial confession
	ii. Truthfulness of confession– inculpatory part corroborated
	iii. DNA evidence
	(iii-a) Identity of pubic hair and chain of custody
	(iii-b) Malkhana storage conditions
	(iii-c) Probative value of DNA profiling report
G.	Criminal conspiracy to commit rapewhether proved
	i) P.Ws. 14 and 15 whether reliable
	ii) Conduct of the appellants
H.	Role of Ansar in the crime
	i) Control of 8 bigha plot
	ii) Presence at the place of occurrence
	ii

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2023 Supreme(Cal) 1381

JOYMALYA BAGCHI, AJAY KUMAR GUPTAState Of West Bengal – AppellantVersusSaiful Ali – Respondent

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JOYMALYA BAGCHI, AJAY KUMAR GUPTA
State Of West Bengal – Appellant
Versus
Saiful Ali – Respondent