IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

CRIMINAL REVISIONAL JURISDICTION

APPELLATE SIDE

PRESENT:

THE HON’BLE JUSTICE UDAY KUMAR

CRR 3857 of 2022

Munaf Hussain Wadekar & Ors.

-Vs-

The State of West Bengal & Anr.

For the Petitioners : Mr. Anand Keshari, Ld. Adv.

Mr. Nipun Saxena, Ld. Adv.

Mr. Soumen Mohanty, Ld. Adv.

Mr. Agnish Basu, Ld. Adv. Mr. Vipul Vedant, Ld. Adv. Mr. Dand Mollah, Ld. Adv.

For the State : Mr. Dipankar Pramanick, Ld. Adv.

Hearing concluded on : 12.12.2025 Judgment on : 09.01.2026

UDAY KUMAR, J.: –

1. The judicial conscience of this Court is invoked under Section 482 of the Code

of Criminal Procedure, 1973, seeking the quashing of proceedings in Complaint Case No. CS 62450/2021, currently pending before the Learned Metropolitan Magistrate, 19th Court, Calcutta. The petitioners, Directors and key personnel of Nepal Shipping Lines Private Limited (NSPL), assail the order of cognizance dated 21.10.2021 and the subsequent issuance of process for offences punishable under Sections 420, 406, and 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The matter brings into sharp focus the increasingly common phenomenon of the strategic conversion of mercantile disputes into criminal

ordeals.

2. The litigation origina