Rajat Kanti Ray@Roy And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

16.02.2023 Serial no. 42 [Dd] (Anticipatory Bail) (Allowed) CRM (A) 675 of 2023 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Patuli Women Police Station Case No. 02 of 2023 dated 26.01.2023 under Sections 498A/406/34 of the Indian Penal Code. -AndIn the matter of : Rajat Kanti Ray @ Roy & Ors. ... ... Petitioners Mr. Amit Ranjan Pati, Ms. Reshmi Mukherjee, Mr. Ashok Halder, Mr. Sunayan Ghosh, Advocates ... ... For the Petitioners Mr. B. K. Roy, Ms. Sima Biswas, Advocate ... ...For the State Mr. S. K. Nag, advocate .. ...For the de facto complainant Police complaint was lodged 4 years after marriage. Apparently, the victim left the matrimonial home in 2016.

In such circumstances, considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners in the incident, 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 petitioner no. 1 shall report before the

Investigating Officer once in a month till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner nos. 2 and 3 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) 675 of 2023 is disposed of.

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