Payel Singha(Roy) v. State Of West Bengal

C.R.M. (A) 554 of 2023 08.02.2023 Sl.11 Court No.29 (AD) (Allowed) In Re: - An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Malda Police Station Case No.548 of 2022 dated 27.11.2022 under Sections 306 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

And In the matter of: Payel Singha (Roy) ....petitioner.

Mr. Kazi Mokhlasur Rahman ... for the petitioner.

Mr. Joydeep Roy Ms. Sujata Das ...for the State.

Petitioner prays for anticipatory bail.

Apparently, the victim committed suicide.

The petitioner is the wife of the victim.

The materials in the case diary does not suggest requirement of custodial interrogation of the petitioner. In such circumstances, 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 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and on condition that the petitioner will cooperate with the investigation 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 petitioner in Court including cancelling the anticipatory bail granted without further reference to this Court.

Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner is allowed.

C.R.M. (A) 554 of 2023 is, thus, disposed of. (Debangsu Basak, J.) (Md. Shabbar Rashidi, J.)