Suvendu Adhikari vs State of West Bengal

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2025 Supreme(Cal) 818

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA
JAY SENGUPTA
Suvendu Adhikari – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Mr. Billwadal Bhattacharyya, Mr. Moyukh Mukherjee, Ms. Aishwarya Bazaz, Ms. Sagnika Banerjee
For the Respondent:Mr. Kalyan Bandopadhyay, Mr. Kishor Dutta, Ld. AG, Mr. Rudradipta Nandy, Ms. Amrita Panja Moulick, Mr. Debangsu Dinda, Mr. Agnish Basu, Mr. Arun Kumar (Mohanty), Mr. Ayan Poddar, Mr. Dhiraj Trivedi, Mr. Dhiraj Trivedi, Ld. DSGI, Mr. Sabyasachi Banerjee, Mr. Sukanta Chakraborty, Mr. Vipul Vedant, Ms. Oisani Mukherjee, Ms. Syed Kishwar, Advocates

Table of Content
1. description of simultaneous writ petitions and criminal proceedings. (Para 1)
2. petitioner’s claims of malicious prosecution. (Para 2)
3. final orders quashing certain criminal proceedings and delineating directions. (Para 32 , 33 , 34)

JUDGMENT :

Jay Sengupta, J.

1. The two writ petitions being WPA 11803 of 2021 and WPA 25522 of 2022 and the Criminal Revisional Application being CRR 2703 of 2022, after assignment, were taken up together as connected matters. In all these applications, it is the prime contention of the petitioner, the Leader of the Opposition in the State that he has been falsely implicated in all these cases as he had shifted his allegiance from the ruling party in the State to the party in opposition.

1.1. While WPA 11803 of 2021 was filed challenging four distinct criminal proceedings either praying for quashing or seeking transfer of investigation to the CBI, similar prayers were made in WPA 25522 of 2022 in respect of eleven distinct criminal proceedings. On the other hand, the revisional application being CRR 2703 of 2022 was filed challenging a single criminal proceeding. After certain orders had been passed, the matters were assigned to this