Amal Choudhury v. State Of West Bengal

29.03.2022 Serial no. 112 [Dd] (anticipator bail Allowed) CRM(A) 455 of 2022 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Medinipur All Women Police Station Case No. 109 of 2019 dated 20.07.2019 under Sections 417/376/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

-AndIn the matter of : Amal Choudhury ... ... Petitioner Mr. Soumyajit Das Mahapatra, Advocate ... ... For the Petitioner Mr. S. S. Imam, Mr. Sk. Arif Hossain, Advocates ... ...For the State Considering the fact that the victim in her statement recorded under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code acknowledges her relationship with the petitioner and considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioner therein, we are inclined to 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 every day 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) 455 of 2022 is disposed of.

(Debangsu Basak, J.) (Bibhas Ranjan De, J.)