Overview

• A division bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Md. Shabbar Rashidi set aside the July 2019 death sentences of Surajit Deb, Lipika Poddar and Sanjoy Biswas in the trolley bag case
• The court concluded the prosecution failed to prove any of the accused were present at Jayanti Deb’s Lake Town flat or near Sealdah Station at the time of the murder
• Judges found no forensic or circumstantial evidence linking recovered bloodstained items to the defendants and ruled confessional statements were not properly examined under Section 313 CrPC
• The bench rejected Sanjoy Biswas’s exculpatory statement under Section 164 CrPC for lack of corroboration and deemed conspiracy charges under Section 120B IPC unsustainable
• Justices Basak and Rashidi ordered the appellants’ immediate release and directed correctional authorities to update records and cancel outstanding warrants