Sandhya Rani Jana @ Sandhya Jana And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

03.03.2023 Ct. No. 29 KAUSHIK Allowed C.R.M.(A) 953 of 2023 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Sabang Police Station Case No. 14 of 2023 dated 10.01.2023 under Sections 341/323/326/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code. And In Re : Sandhya Rani Jana @ Sandhya Jana & Ors. ...... petitioners Mr. Navanil De Mr. Rajeshwar Chakraborty Mr. Subhrajit Dey Ms. Monami Mukherjee ....for the petitioners Mr. Ranabir Roychowdhury Mr. Sandip Chakraborty ....for the State An injured suffered a fracture injury due to an incident of assault by a wooden stick.

Apparently, relatives fought amongst themselves. Considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners in the incident, we 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/- 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 nos. 2 (Gour Jana @ Gouranga Jana) and 3 (Madan Jana) shall meet the Investigating Officer once a fortnight till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner no. 1 (Sandhya Rani Jana @ Sandhya Jana) shall cooperate with the Investigating Officer till the conclusion of the investigation and on 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. This application for anticipatory bail is, thus, allowed. (Debangsu Basak, J.) (Md. Shabbar Rashidi, J.)