Akalu Das And ANR. v. State Of West Bengal

20/02/2026 D/L - 61 Court No.28 S. Kundu Allowed C.R.M.(A) 429 of 2026 In Re: An application for anticipatory bail under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023. In connection with Itahar P.S case no. 530 of 2025 dated 6/8/2025 under sections 88/103(1)/80 of the BNS read with Sections 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

In the matter of: Akalu Das & Anr.

...Petitioners.

Mr. J.I. Hossain ...for the petitioners.

Mr. Bitasok Banerjee Mr. Aritra Bhattacharyya ...for the State.

1. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits as follows. The petitioners are the parents-in-law of the victim/deceased. The marriage took place between the couple about one and half years ago. The husband was arrested and was thereafter granted bail. After suffering miscarriage, the victim was in state of depression. Thereafter, she committed suicide.

2. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. He relies on the statements of witnesses and the post-mortem report. However, there is no document available regarding the miscarriage.

3. From the statement of a neighbour of the accused present at page 17 of the case diary, it appears that on the previous day there was an altercation between the victim and the husband and the victim was beaten up by the husband.

4. Considering the above, the other materials available in the case diary and the fact that the principal accused being the husband was arrested and was thereafter granted bail and the fact that charge-sheet has been submitted, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners.

5. 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, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the Arresting Officer and also be subject to further conditions that the petitioners shall not threaten or intimidate the witnesses. The petitioners shall surrender before the learned jurisdictional Court and pray for bail within four weeks from date and regularly attend the jurisdictional Court.

6. Accordingly, the application for anticipatory bail is allowed.

7. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance with requisite formalities.

(Jay Sengupta, J.)