Prabir Pramanik And ANR v. State Of West Bengal

16.01.2024 tkm/ct 28 C.R.M. (DB) 131 of 2024 sl no. 62 In Re : An application for bail under section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Duttapkur PS case no. 970 of 2022 dated 13.10.2022 under sections 498A/302/304B/34 IPC and Allowed In Re : Prabir Pramanik & Anr.

...... petitioners Mr. A Chakraborty Mr. S S Saha ...... for the petitioners Mr. Joydeep Biswas ...... for the State

1. Petitioners are in custody for more than a year. It is submitted there is delay in trial. They renew their bail prayer.

2. Learned lawyer for the State opposes the bail prayer. He submits victim housewife was murdered at the matrimonial home within six months of marriage.

3. We have considered the materials on record. Petitioners are the parents in law and there is no chance of their abscondence. Possibility of trial concluding in the near future is bleak.

4. Under such circumstances we are inclined to grant bail to the petitioners.

5. Accordingly, the petitioners be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- each with two sureties of like amount each, one of whom must be local to the satisfaction of the learned CJM North 24 Parganas at Barasat on condition that the petitioners shall appear before the trial court on every date of hearing and shall not intimidate witnesses or tamper with evidence in any manner whatsoever.

6. In the event they fail to appear before the trial court without justifiable cause, the trial court shall be at liberty to cancel thier bail automatically without reference to this court.

7. The application being CRM (DB) 131 of 2024 is disposed of. (Gaurang Kanth, J.) (Joymalya Bagchi, J.)