Arati Malik And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

CRM (A) 1492 of 2022 07.04.2022 Sl. 06 Court No.29 Suvayan (Partly Allowed) In Re: - An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Sarenga P.S. Case No.

21/2022 dated 15/03/2022 under Sections 323/307/498A/406/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code. And In the matter of: Arati Malik & Ors.

....petitioners.

Mr. S. M. Obaidullah Ms. Ankita Dey ...for the petitioners.

Mr. Saibal Bapuli Mr. Soumik Ganguly ...for the State.

Petitioners seek anticipatory bail.

Considering the fact that the husband is in custody and considering the gravity of the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners therein, we grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners.

In such circumstances, CRM (A) 1492 of 2022 is dismissed as not pressed for the petitioner No.2 (Kartik Chandra Malik @ Kartik Malik).

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 further condition that the petitioner No. 1 (Arati Malik), petitioner No.4 (Rupa Patra) and petitioner No.5 (Mousumi Basu @ Mausumi Ghosh) shall cooperate with the Investigating Office till the conclusion of

the investigation and petitioner No.3 (Suresh Malik) and petitioner No.6 (Gopal Malik) 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. Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners is allowed.

CRM (A) 1492 of 2022 is, thus disposed of.

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