IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE PRESENT:

The Hon’ble Justice Debangsu Basak The Hon’ble Justice Jay Sengupta The Hon’ble Justice Tirthankar Ghosh C.R.A. 123 of 2019 (CRAN 2 of 2022)

[Anikul @ Anikul Islam & Anr. vs. The State of West Bengal]

WITH C.R.A. 37 of 2019 [Maharom Mondal @ Antu @ Maharam Mondal vs. The State of West Bengal]

WITH C.R.A. 189 of 2017 (CRAN 2 of 2021) (CRAN 3 of 2023)

[Krishna Kumar Patel vs. The State of West Bengal]

WITH C.R.A. 702 of 2018 [Ripon Sk. vs. The State of West Bengal]

WITH C.R.R. 2111 of 2019 [Eunus Ali Mondal @ Yunush Mondal @ Yunus Ali Mondal vs.

The State of West Bengal]

WITH C.R.A. 215 of 2016 [Abdul Hakim @ Dalim @ Abdul Halim vs. The State of West Bengal]

WITH C.R.A. 657 of 2016 (CRAN 1 of 2017 Old CRAN No. 3152 of 2017)

[Jalal Sk. vs. The State of West Bengal]

WITH C.R.A. 730 of 2016 [Morful Sk. vs. The State of West Bengal]

WITH C.R.A. 15 of 2019 [Jahangir Sikdar vs. The State of West Bengal]

WITH C.R.A. 268 of 2019 [Anarul Sk. vs. The State of West Bengal]

WITH C.R.A. 396 of 2019 [Ujjal Mondal @ Ujjwal Mandal vs. The State of West Bengal]

WITH C.R.A. 608 of 2019 (CRAN 2 of 2019 Old CRAN No. 4712 of 2019)

[Hash ibul Mondal vs. The State of West Bengal & Anr.]

WITH C.R.R. 984 of 2019 [Fajlur Rahaman Sk. @ Fajlur vs. The State of West Bengal]

WITH C.R.R. 2308 of 2019 (CRAN 3 of 2019 Old CRAN No. 4855 of 2019)

[Bapi Chatterjee @ Biplab & Anr. vs. The State of West Bengal]

Mr. Tapan Dutta Gupta, Mr. Parvej Anam, Ms. Rituparna Ghosh, Mr. Sourav Sardar ... for the appellants in CRA 123 of 2019.

Mr. Sourav Chatterjee, Mr. Soumyajit Das Mahapatra, Ms. Madhurai Sinha, Ms. Upasana Banerjee ... for the appellant in CRA 37 of 2019.

Mr. Sabyasachi Banerjee Mr. Arnab Saha, Mr. Abhimanyu Banerjee, Ms. Nahid Ahmed ... for the appellant in CRA 189 of 2017.

Mr. Satadru Lahiri, Mr. Safdar Azam ... for the appellant in CRR 2111 of 2019.

Md. Sabir Ahmed, Md. Abdur Rakib, Mr. Shraman Sarkar, Mr. Dhiman Banerjee, Mr. Megahid Mehedi ... for the appellant in CRA 702 of 2018.

Mr. Sataroop Purkayestha, Mr. Musharraf Alam Sk., Ms. Jagriti Bhattacharyya, Mr. Abhishek Chakraborty, Mr. Hamidur Rahaman ... for the appellant in CRA 657 of 2016.

Mr. Debanshu Ghorai, Mr. Avinabha Mukherjee ... for the appellant in CRA 396 of 2019.

Mr. Sailendranath Chakrabotry, Mr. Anshunath Chakraborty ... for the appellant in CRA 15 of 2019.

Ms. Jhuma Sen, Ms. Swastika Chatterjee, Ms. Sneha Bera ... for the Appellant in CRA 215 of 2016.

Mr. Arindam Jana, Mr. Sumanta Ganguly, Mr. Shahan Shah, Mr. Yuvraj Chatterjee, Mr. Rahul Surtari, Mr. Soumen Barman ... for the appellant in CRA 608 of 2019.

Mr. Ramdulal Manna, Ms. Manju Manna (Dey), Mr. Sayan Mukherjee ... for the appellant in CRA 268 of 2019.

Mr. Amanul Islam, Mr. Sourav Mukherjee ... for the Petitioner in CRR 984 of 2019.

Mr. Jhuma Sen, Ms. Swastika Chatterjee, Ms. Ankita Roy ... for the appellant in CRA 215 of 2016.

Mr. Debashis Roy, Ld. P.P.

Ms. Sukanya Bhattacharya, Md. Kutubuddin ... for the State in CRR 984 of 2019.

Mr. Debashis Roy, Ld. P.P.

Ms. Anasuya Sinha ... for the State (CRA 37 of 2019, CRA 657 of 2016 &

CRA 15 of 2019)

Mr. Debashis Roy, Ld. P.P.

Mr. Partha Pratim Das, Mrs. Manasi Roy ...for the State (CRA 123 of 2019).

Mr. Debashis Roy, Ld. P.P.

Mr. Faria Hossain, Ms. Baisali Basu ... for the State (CRA 396 of 2019).

Mr. Debashis Roy, Ld. P.P.

Md. Anwar Hossain, AGP, Ms. Manisha Sharma, AGP .... for the State (CRA 702 of 2018).

Ms. Faria Hossain Ld. APP, Ms. Baisali Basu ....for the State in CRA 396 of 2019.

Hearing Concluded On : 18.08.2025 Judgment on : 10.11.2025 Tirthankar Ghosh, J:-

During the hearing of CRA 123 of 2019, CRA 37 of 2019, CRA 189 of 2017 and CRA 702 of 2018, the following terms of reference arose:

1) Whether the aid of ‘presumption’ is available when the seizure of FICN is effected from the possession of an individual?

2) If quantity/volume of FICN is a ground of ‘presumption’, what would be the cut off number for presuming that the ‘possession’ was