Shankar Biswas @ Santosh Biswas And ANR v. State Of West Bengal

CRM (A) 1481 of 2022 08.04.2022 Sl. 04 Court No.29 suvayan (Allowed) In Re: - An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Gaighata P.S. Case No. 129 of 2022 dated 14/02/2022 under Sections 498A/306 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

And In the matter of: Shankar Biswas alias Santosh Biswas & Anr. ....petitioners.

Mr. Susnigdho Bhattacharyya ...for the petitioners.

Mr. Saswata Gopal Mukherjee, Ld. PP Mr. Aniket Mitra ...for the State.

Petitioners seek anticipatory bail.

Considering the fact that the husband is in custody and considering the relationship between petitioner and the de facto complainant and considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners therein, 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/- (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 petitioner No.1 (Shankar Biswas alias Santosh Biswas) will report before the Investigating Officer once in a fortnight till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner No.2 (Pipasha Biswas) shall co-operate with 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.

Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners is allowed.

CRM (A) 1481 of 2022 is, thus disposed of.

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