Bikram Rishi And ANR v. State Of West Bengal

16.02.2023 Serial no. 21 [Dd] (Anticipatory Bail) (Allowed) CRM (A) 654 of 2023 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with English Bazar Police Station Case No.

of dated 04.09.2022 under Sections 465/468/471/109 of the Indian Penal Code -AndIn the matter of : Bikram Rishi & Anr.

... ... Petitioners Mr. Pawan Kr. Gupta, Ms. Salma Sultana Shah, Advocates ... ... For the Petitioners Mr. Swaoab Banerjee, Mr. Anindya Sundar Chatterjee , Advocates ... ...For the State The claim for parity with the other co-accuseds who were enlarged on anticipatoy bail by the order dated January 11, 2023 passed in CRM(A) 80 of 2023 is not being disputed on behalf of the State.

In such circumstances, 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 month 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) 654 of 2023 is disposed of.

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