Kunal Majumdar And ANR v. State Of West Bengal

13.02.2023 Serial no. 21 [Dd] (Anticipatory Bail) (Allowed) CRM (A) 630 of 2023 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Khardah Police Station Case No. 740 of 2022 dated 12.09.2022 under Sections 341/323/354/354B/379/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code (G.R. Case NO. 8822/2022) -AndIn the matter of : Kunal Majumdar & Anr. ... ... Petitioners Mr. Dipankar Additya, Mr. Pinaki Bhattacharya, Advocates ... ... For the Petitioners Mr. Sujan Chatterjee, Advocate ... ...For the State The Court is informed that the complainant is no longer cooperating with the investigations despite notices being sent to her.

Considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners therein in the incident and considering the materials in the case diary, we are inclined to 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 petitioners shall report before the Investigating Officer once in a fortnight till the conclusion of the investigation 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) 630 of 2023 is disposed of.

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