Gopal Mandal And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

C.R.M. (A) 1907 of 2022 26.04.2022 Sl. 49 Court No.29 sourav (Allowed) In Re: - An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Bhutni Police Station Case No. 48 of 2022 dated 30.03.2022 under Sections 341/325/326/308/354/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code. And In the matter of: Gopal Mandal & Ors.

....petitioners.

Mr. Arup Kumar Bhowmick ...for the petitioners.

Mr. Pravash Bhattacharjee Mr. Pratick Bose ...for the State.

Petitioners pray for anticipatory bail.

Considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners therein as transpiring from the materials in the case diary, 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/- (Rupees Ten Thousand Only) each, with two sureties of like amount each, to the satisfaction of the Arresting Officer and subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and on condition that the petitioner nos. 1 to 8 will report before the Investigating Officer once in a fortnight till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner nos.

9 and 10 will co-operate with the investigation and on condition that the petitioners 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.

Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners is allowed.

C.R.M. (A) 1907 of 2022 is, thus, disposed of. (Debangsu Basak, J.) (Bibhas Ranjan De, J.)