IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction Appellate Side CRA (DB)/307/2024 WITH IA No: CRAN/1/2024 Sajal Maji V.

The State of West Bengal Before: The Hon’ble Justice Arijit Banerjee &

The Hon’ble Justice Apurba Sinha Ray For the appellant : Mr. Saryati Dutta, Adv.

Mr. Sanjib Kr. Dan, Adv.

For the State : Mr. Saibal Bapuli, Ld. APP Mr. Subham Bhakat, Adv.

Judgment On : 23.04.2026 Arijit Banerjee, J.:-

1. This appeal is directed against a judgment and order dated August 27, 2024 and August 29, 2024, passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, 1^st Court Suri at Birbhum in Sessions Trial No. 02 (5) 2023 arising out of Sessions Case No. 166 of 2010, whereby the appellant was convicted of offence punishable under Section 307 IPC read with Section 9B (2) of the Indian Explosive Act, and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for ten years. The appellant was also fined in the sum of Rs. 5000/-.

2. In short, the prosecution case is that on the day of the alleged incident, the victim Byomkesh Mondal (PW 6) was returning from his shop along with his friend Dwarkesh Bauri (PW 2). At that time campaigning was going on for Panchayat election. Byomkesh and his friend heard t