Rahul Mahato v. State Of West Bengal

C.R.M. (A) 203 of 2023 17.01.2023 Sl.31 Court No.29 (AD) (Allowed) In Re: - An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Balarampur Police Station Case No.19 of 2022 dated 10.02.2022 under Sections 147/148/149/186/341/323/325/326/307/332/353/427/1 20B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and under Sections 3 and 4 of PDPP Act now pending as G.R. Case No.292 of 2022. And In the matter of: Rahul Mahato ....petitioner.

Mr. Pawan Kumar Gupta Mr. Sougata Mitra Ms. Sofia Nesar Mr. Santanu Sett Ms. Ankita Dey Mr. Abhijit Bose ...for the petitioner.

Mr. Swapan Banerjee Ms. Purnima Ghosh ...for the State.

Petitioner prays for anticipatory bail.

The police filed charge sheet.

Considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioner therein, we grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, we direct that in the event of arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail upon furnishing a Bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand Only), with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of the Arresting Officer and also subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and on condition that the petitioner shall appear on every date before the jurisdictional Court on and from the date fixed for appearance of the accused and in default, the jurisdictional Court will pass appropriate order to

secure the presence of the petitioner in Court including cancelling the anticipatory bail granted without further reference to this Court. The prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner is allowed. C.R.M. (A) 203 of 2023 is disposed of.

(Debangsu Basak, J.) (Md. Shabbar Rashidi, J.)