2024 INSC 794 Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. OF 2024 (@ Special Leave to Petition (Crl.) No.12292 OF 2022) ASIM AKHTAR …APPELLANT(S) VERSUS THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ANR. …RESPONDENT(S) J U D G M E N T VIKRAM NATH, J. 1. Leave granted. 2. By means of this appeal, the accused has assailed the correctness of the judgment and order dated 11.08.2022 passed by the Calcutta High Court in CRA No.222/2020 whereby the High Court allowed the appeal filed by the complainant (respondent no.2) and after setting aside the acquittal recorded by the Trial Court on 31.09.2020, remanded the case to proceed in a manner whereby the Trial Court would first decide the application under Section 319 of the SLP(Crl.) No.12292 of 2022 Page 1 of 14Code of Criminal Procedure, 19731 and thereafter proceed to decide the trial. Brief facts relating to the present case are: 3. That the First Information Report2 was lodged by respondent no.2 alleging that