Sunil Laheri & ORS v. State Of West Bengal

C.R.R. 685 of 2020 Court No.

Item 10 ssi In the matter of:- Sunil Laheri & ors.

10.03.

Mr. Narayan Debnath Mr. Abhishek Choudhary ...for the petitioners Mr. Arijit Ganguly ...for the State This is an application challenging the issuance of warrant of arrest against the petitioners.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners submits as follows. In course of the impugned proceeding, a settlement was arrived at between the private parties in 2015. After obtaining bail, in terms of such settlement, the petitioner no.1 and the daughter of the defacto-complainant/opposite party no.2 had actually got married in 2019 and are presently having two children, one aged about 11 years and the other one 3 years. After obtaining bail, the petitioners were under the imprison that they need not attend the Court any further. Accordingly, warrant of arrest was issued in 2016 which has remained pending.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the opposite party no.2/defacto-complainant supports the contention of the learned counsel for the petitioners.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State submits that in the peculiar circumstances in this case,

the State would not come in the way if the warrant of arrest issued against the petitioners remained stayed for a limited period and the petitioners were granted liberty to surrender before the learned trial Court within such time. I have heard the submissions of the learned counsels appearing on behalf of the parties and have perused the revision petition.

It appears that the petitioners had made out a case for having the warrant of arrest issued against them stayed for a limited period.

In view of the above and in the interest of justice, I direct the petitioners to surrender before the learned trial Court within four weeks from this date. The warrant of arrest issued against them shall remain stayed for a period of four weeks from this date.

In the event, the petitioners surrender before the learned trial Court within such time and pray for bail, the application for bail shall be considered in accordance with law.

With these observations, the revisional application is disposed of.

Urgent photostat certified copies of this order may be delivered to the learned Advocates for the parties, if applied for, upon compliance of all formalities. (Jay Sengupta, J.)