Sabita Bera v. State Of West Bengal

06.08.2021 Item no.51.

Court No.32.

AB (Allowed) (Via Video Conference) CRM No. 2368 of 2021 In Re: An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on 3.3.2021 in connection with Polba Police Station Case No.145 of 2020 Dated 26.09.2020 under Sections 498A/304B of the Indian Penal Code And In the matter of : Sabita Bera & Anr.

......Petitioners.

Mr. Sujan Chatterjee, Mr. Sanat Kr. Das, Mr. Partha Sarkar .....for the Petitioners.

Mr. Tanmoy Kr. Ghosh, Ms. Sima Biswas ......for the State.

The petitioners are the mother-in-law and aunt-in-law of the victim lady. The charge is under Sections 498A/304B of the Penal Code.

The petitioners say that they have no involvement in the commission of the alleged offence.

We have seen the material in the case diary. We have seen statements of witnesses recorded under Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Charge sheet has been submitted. The petitioners say that they will fully cooperate with the Investigating Officer if there is any further investigation.

In view of the aforesaid, we are inclined to allow the prayer of the petitioners for anticipatory bail. Accordingly, 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, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the arresting officer and shall abide by the conditions laid down in Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure until further orders.

In case the petitioners fail to adhere to any of the conditions mentioned in Section 438(2) of the Code, the learned Court below shall be entitled to cancel the anticipatory bail without further reference to this Court.

The application for anticipatory bail being C.R.M. No.2368 of 2021 is, thus, allowed.

All parties shall act in terms of server copy of the order downloaded from the official website of this Court. (Suvra Ghosh, J.) (Arijit Banerjee, J.)