Prakash Sinha v. The State Of West Bengal

(AD) 22.04.2022 C.R.M. (A) 1800 of 2022 Court No.29 (Allowed) In Re: - An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Bidhannagar (East) P.S. Case No.20 of 2022 dated 12/02/2022 under Sections 323/341/354/506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. And In the matter of: Prakash Sinha ....petitioner.

Mr. Sandipan Ganguly, Advocate Mr. Somopriyo Chowdhury Mr. Arunabha Deb Mr. Ayush Jain Mr. Matri Prasad Das Ms. Deepti Priya ...for the petitioner.

Mr. Swapan Banerjee Mr. Anindya Sundar Chatterjee ...for the State.

Petitioner seeks anticipatory bail.

Learned Advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was falsely implicated. The petitioner is a journalist. The petitioner lodged a police complaint. As a counter-blast the present police complaint is also lodged against the petitioner.

Learned Advocate appearing for the State draws the attention of the Court to the materials in the case diary. Considering the fact that the petitioner lodged a police complaint with regard to the assault that he suffered and considering the fact that the present police complaint being registered as a counter-blast of the earlier police complaint lodged by the petitioner cannot be ruled out at this stage, we 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 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 will report before the Investigating Officer once a month till the conclusion of 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 petitioner in Court including cancelling the anticipatory bail granted without further reference to this Court.

The prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner is allowed. C.R.M. (A) 1800 of 2022 is disposed of.

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