IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CIRCUIT BENCH AT JALPAIGURI CRIMINAL REVISIONAL JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE Present:

The Hon’ble Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul)

CRR 291 of 2023 Raj Kumar Kanoi & Ors.

Vs.

State of West Bengal & Anr.

For the Petitioners : Mr. Milon Mukherjee, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Biswajit Manna, Mr. S. P. Tewary, Mr. Debajit Kundu.

For the State : Mr. Aditi Shankar Chakraborty, Mr. Arjun Chowdhury.

For the P.F. Authority : Mr. Bhaskar Roy Mahapatra.

Hearing concluded on : 23.04.2025 Judgment on : 01.05.2025 Shampa Dutt (Paul), J.:

1. The present revision has been preferred praying for quashing of proceeding being Special Case No. 11/16 arising out of G.R. No.4641/2013 in connection with Mal Police Station Case No. 542/122013 dated 23.08.2013 under Section 406/409 of the Indian Penal Code filed in the Court of the Learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jalpaiguri and now pending in the Court of the Learned 2nd Additional District & Sessions Judge, Special Court, Jalpaiguri.

2. The petitioners are the Ex-Directors of M/S Kumlai Tea & Industries Ltd., owner of Kumlai Tea Estate having its registered office at 1, Ganesh Chandra Avenue, Kolkata - 700013 and its tea estate namely Kumlai Tea Estate, Pos