Pratima Barman And ANR v. State Of West Bengal

19.04.2022 Serial no.29 Aloke CRM (A) 1750 of 2022 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Chakdah Police Station Case No. 133 of 2022 dated 09.03.2022 under Section 302/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

-AndIn the matter of : Pratima Barman & Anr. ... ... Petitioners Mr. Shibaji Kr. Das, Advocate Ms. Rupsa Sreemani, Advocate ... ... For the Petitioners Mr. Zareen N. Khan, Advocate Mr. Arup Sarkar, Advocate ... ...For the State Petitioners seek anticipatory bail.

Learned advocate appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioners were not involved in the incident. Learned Advocate appearing for the State draws the attention to the materials in the case diary. It appears from the materials in the case diary that there are omnibus allegations against the petitioners. The main assailants are in custody.

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 condition that the petitioner no. 2 will report before the Investigating Officer once in a week till the conclusion of the

investigation and petitioner no. 1 will cooperate with the investigation and on condition that the petitioner 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.

The prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners is allowed.

CRM (A) 1750 of 2022 is disposed of.

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