Sri Nilu Barman v. State Of West Bengal

24.01.2024 Serial no. 331 Anticipatory bail [Allowed] Dd CRM (A) 157 of 2024 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with English Bazar Police Station Case No.

of dated 05.12.2023 under Sections 406 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

(G.R. Case No. 8313 / 2023) -AndIn the matter of : Sri Nilu Barman ... ... Petitioner Mr. Sanjib Seth, Mr. Srikanta Datta, Advocates ... ... For the Petitioner Mr. Swapan Banerjee, Ms. Baisali Basu, Advocates ... ...For the State Petitioner before us is the Executive Engineer of West Bengal Rural Development Authority.

Such authority floated a tender which was subsequently cancelled.

The police complaint revolves around such dealings. In such circumstances, 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 be subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and on further condition that the petitioner shall report before the Investigating Officer once in a month till the conclusion of the investigation and on further 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. Prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner is allowed. CRM (A) 157 of 2024 is disposed of.

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