Bikram Naskar And ANR. v. State Of West Bengal

27.03.2024 0Ct. No. 29 S.D.

Allowed C.R.M.(A) 1033 of 2024 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Mathura Pur Police Station Case No. 331 of 2023 dated 27.12.2023 under Section 306/34 of the Indian Penal Code pending before the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Diamond Harbour, South 24 Parganas.

And In Re : Bikram Naskar & Anr.

...... petitioners Mr. Arun Halder Mr. Surajit Basu ...for the petitioners Mr. P.K. Dutta Mr. A. Verma ...for the State Apparently, the victim committed suicide.

Victim also left behind a suicide note.

As to whether the petitioners are involved in abetting the commission of such suicide, may be decided at the trial. We, therefore, 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. The petitioner no. 1 will report before the Investigating Officer once a fortnight till the conclusion of the investigation and the petitioner no. 2 will Signed By :

Surojit Das High Court of Calcutta 27 th of March 2024 04:22:56 AM

cooperate with the investigation till the conclusion of the investigation. 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.) Signed By :

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