Sushanta Pradhan And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

31.03.2023 Ct. No. 29 KAUSHIK Allowed C.R.M.(A) 1378 of 2023 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Contai Women Police Station Case No. 27 of 2023 dated 16.03.2023 under Sections 307/323/325/34/341/354/506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

And In Re : Sushanta Pradhan & Ors.

...... petitioners Mr. Suman De ....for the petitioners Mr. S. S. Imam Mr. R. Jana ....for the State Apparently, an incident of assault took place over disputes relating to user of a common passage. Injury suffered do not suggests that they are of grievous hurt.

In such circumstances, we 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/- 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. 1 (Sushanta Pradhan) and 2 (Pusparanjan

Pradhn) shall meet the Investigating Officer once a month till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner no. 3 (Basanti Pradhan) shall cooperate with the Investigating Officer till the conclusion of the investigation and on condition that the petitioners 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 petitioners in Court including cancelling the anticipatory bail granted without further reference to this Court.

This application for anticipatory bail is, thus, allowed. (Debangsu Basak, J.) (Md. Shabbar Rashidi, J.)