Karuna Agarwal And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

06.04.2022 Serial no. 24 [Dd] (Anticipatory Bail Allowed) CRM(A) 1585 of 2022 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Kharagpur (Town) Police Station Case No. 141 dated March 19, 2022 under Sections 341/323/325/354B/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code giving rise to GR Case No. 361 of 2022. -AndIn the matter of : Karuna Agarwal & Ors. ... ... Petitioners Mr. Navanil De, Mr. Rajeshwar Chakraborty, Mr. Subhrajit Dey, Mr. Srinjan Ghosh, Advocate ... ... For the Petitioners Mr. Bidyut Kr. Roy, Ms. Rita Datta, Advocate ... ...For the State Considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners therein, we are inclined to 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 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 and 4 shall report before the Investigating Officer once in a fortnight till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner nos. 1, 3 and 5 shall cooperate with the investigation till its completion and on further 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.

Prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners is allowed.

CRM(A) 1585 of 2022 is disposed of.

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