Sunil Mandal And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

17.03.2022 Serial no.3 Aloke Ct. No. 29 CRM (A) 1194 of 2022 In re: An Application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on 08.03.2022 in connection with English Bazar Police Station Case No. 184 of dated 03.02.2022 under Sections 341/323/326/354/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code. -AndIn the matter of : Sunil Mandal & Ors.

... ...Petitioners Mr. Arup Kr. Bhowmick, Advocate ... ... For the Petitioners Mr. Shiladitya Banerjee, Advocate ... ... For the State Petitioners seek anticipatory bail.

Learned Advocate appearing for the petitioners submits that the incident arose out of a property dispute. Learned Advocate appearing for the State draws the attention to the injury report as also to the statement recorded under Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners therein, 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 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and on condition that the petitioners will report before the Investigating Officer once in a fortnight till the conclusion of the investigation and on condition that the petitioners shall appear every day 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.

The prayer for anticipatory bail is allowed.

CRM (A) 1194 of 2022 is disposed of.

(Debangsu Basak, J.) (Bibhas Ranjan De, J.)