IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction Appellate Side CRA (DB)/360/2025 Mansur Ali @ Mansur Seikh @ Mansur SK @ Machuur Ali V.

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

The Hon’ble Justice Apurba Sinha Ray For the appellant : Mr. Sabyasachi Banerjee, Sr. Adv.

Ms. Diksha Ghosh, Adv.

For UOI (NIA) : Mr. Arun Kr. Maiti (Mohanty), Spl. PP., NIA.

Mr. Bhaskar Prosad Banerjee, Spl. PP., NIA.

Mr. Debayan Sen, Spl. PP., NIA. Mr. Debasish Tandon, PP., NIA.

Ms. Deeba Nomani, Adv.

Judgment On : 05.05.2026 Arijit Banerjee, J.:-

1. The appellant renews his prayer for bail which was earlier rejected by this Court on March 17, 2025.

2. The appellant says that he is in custody for two years eight months. Only one out of 102 prosecution witnesses has been examined till date and that too, in part. All the other accused persons are on bail. The petitioner stands on the same footing or better footing than those persons.

3. The prosecution claims that the appellant along with 6 other persons were involved in mass scale manufacture of bombs in aid of terrorist activities. Out of the 7 accused persons, one person died due to a bomb blast in the process of manufact