Supratim Biswas v. State Of West Bengal

30.03.2023 Serial no. 12 [Dd] (Anticipatory bail) Allowed) CRM (A) 1297 of 2023 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Santragachi Police Station Case No. 52 of 2022 dated 17th April, 2022 under Sections 376(F)/354/509/506 of the IPC. -AndIn the matter of : Supratim Biswas ... ... Petitioner Mr. Raghunath Chakraborty, Mr. Supratim Shyamal, Ms. Sonali Sengupta, Advocate ... ... For the Petitioner Mr. Neguive Ahmed, ld. APP Ms. Trina Mitra, Advocate ... ...For the State The victim is 29 years of age. She in her statement recorded under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure narrates the incident which she suffered before she attained the age of a major.

There is a considerable delay in the lodgment of the first information report.

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 report before the Investigating Officer once in a month till the conclusion of the

investigation 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) 1297 of 2023 is disposed of.

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