Anarul Haque And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

18.01.2023 Ct. No. 29 KAUSHIK Allowed C.R.M.(A) 233 of 2023 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Harishchandrapur Police Station Case No. 238 of 2022 dated 29.03.2022 under Sections 143/144/145/147/ 148/149/341/188/323/307/427/506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 read with Section 9 of the West Bengal Maintenance of Public Order Act, 1972.

And In Re : Anarul Haque & Ors.

...... petitioners Mr. Soupal Chatterjee Ms. Sucheta Banerjee ....for the petitioners Mr. Sudip Ghosh Mr. Apurba Kumar Dutta ....for the State The State did not oppose the claim for parity with the other co-accuseds, who were enlarged on anticipatory bail by the order dated December 22, 2022 passed in CRM(A) 5963 of 2022.

In such circumstances, we grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

Accordingly, we direct that in the event of arrest the petitioners shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- each, 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

petitioners shall meet the Investigating Officer once a month till the conclusion of the investigation 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 petitioners in Court including cancelling the anticipatory bail granted without further reference to this Court.

This application for anticipatory bail is, thus, allowed. (Debangsu Basak, J.) (Md. Shabbar Rashidi, J.)