Dipankar Roy @ Babai v. State Of West Bengal

30.04.2025 Court No.28 Item No.10 ssi CRM (A) 1244 of 2025 In Re: - An application for anticipatory bail under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Suraksha Nagarik Sanhita in connection with Bongaon PS Case No.987 of dated 03.11.2021 under Sections 420/406/506 of the Indian Penal Code.

And In the matter of: Dipankar Roy @ Babai ....Applicant/Petitioner.

Mr. Sourat Nandy ...for the petitioner.

Mr. Avishek Sinha Mr. Abhinaba Mukherjee ..for the State Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. There is an inordinate delay in lodging the FIR. A notice was given under Section 41A of the Code three years after the institution of the case. The petitioner has obtained bail in the other cases started against him.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State submits as follows. The modus operandi of the petitioner is that he would sell a car to a purchaser, after the car develops some defects and it is given back to his garage, he will withhold it and not return it back. He has cheated a number of people in this manner. There are five more cases registered against the petitioner in this regard being Gaighata PS Case No. 640 of 2021, 931 of 2021, 1441 of 2022, 403 of 2022, 914 of 2023.

In view of the incriminating materials available in the case diary and the criminal antecedents, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner is rejected.

(Jay Sengupta, J.)