Barun Simlai v. State Of West Bengal

07.02.2024 Item No.18 Ct. No. 29 CHC Allowed C.R.M.(A) 399 of 2024 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Sutahata Police Station Case No. 256 of 2023 dated 13.07.2023 under Sections 448/323/324/325/354/427/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code and adding Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code. And In the matter of : Barun Simlai ...... petitioner Mr. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, Sr. Advocate Mr. Uday Sankar Chattopadhyay, Mr. S. S. Chatterjee, Ms. Aishwarya Dutta ....for the petitioner Mr. Apurba Kumar Datta ....for the State Petitioner prays for anticipatory bail.

Police filed charge-sheet.

Other co-accused were granted either anticipatory bail or bail.

In view of the police concluding investigation and the nature of the incident and the involvement of the petitioner therein, 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 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. This application for anticipatory bail is, thus, allowed. CRM(A) 399 of 2024 is disposed of.

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