Md Lokman And ANR v. State Of West Bengal

13.02.2024 Serial no. 134 Anticipatory Bail [Allowed] Dd CRM (A) 395 of 2024 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police Station Case No. 172 of 2023 under Sections 420/406/120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

-AndIn the matter of : Md Lokman & Anr.

... ... Petitioners Mr. Prithvijoy Das, Ms. Ishani Ghoshal, Mr. Abhijit Adhikari, Ms. Roma Singh, Ms. Sharmi Das, Advocates ... ... For the Petitioners Mr. Saibal Bapuli, APP Mr. Palash Ch. Majhi, Advocates ... ...For the State Ms. Papiya Naskar, Mr. Debabrata Halder, Advocates ... ...For the de facto complainant Alleged defrauded amount was paid by the principal accused and such principal accused was enlarged on bail. In such circumstances, we grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners.

Accordingly, we direct that in the event of arrest the petitioners shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand Only) 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 petitioner no. 1 shall report before the Investigating Officer once in a month till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner no. 2 shall cooperate with the investigation till its completion and on further condition that the petitioners 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.

Prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners is allowed. CRM (A) 395 of 2024 is disposed of.

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