Jharna Mondal v. State Of West Bengal

24.03.2023 Serial no. 28 [Dd] (Anticipatory bail) Allowed) CRM (A) 1223 of 2023 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Tapan Police Station Case No. 82 of 2023 dated 12.02.2023 under Sections 306/34 of IPC (corresponding to G.R. case no. 259/2023) -AndIn the matter of : Jharna Mondal ... ... Petitioner Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, Ms. Busra Khatun, Advocates ... ... For the Petitioner Mr. Bidyut Kr. Roy, Ms. Sima Biswas, Advocate ... ...For the State Apparently, the husband committed suicide due to his wife miscarrying a baby.

The postmortem report of the victim suggests that the death was due to hanging.

In such circumstances, we are inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

Accordingly, we direct that in the event of arrest the petitioner shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand Only), 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 shall cooperate with the investigations till its conclusion and on further condition that the petitioner 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 petitioner in Court including cancelling the anticipatory bail granted without further reference to this Court.

Prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner is allowed. CRM (A) 1223 of 2023 is disposed of.

(Debangsu Basak, J.) (Md. Shabbar Rashidi, J.)