Souvik Mustafi And ANR v. State Of West Bengal

11.05.2022 Ct. No. 29 KAUSHIK Allowed C.R.M.(A) 2116 of 2022 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Kharagpur (Town) Police Station Case No. 135 of 2022 dated 18.03.2022 under Sections 448/323/325/307/506/354B/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

And In Re : Souvik Mustafi & Anr.

...... petitioners Mr. D. P. Mitra ....for the petitioners Mr. Saibal Bapuli Mr. Arijit Ganguly Mr. Avik Ghatak ....for the State Considering the nature of injury suffered by the victim and considering the materials in the case diary, the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners therein, 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 petitioners shall meet the Investigating Officer once in a month till the conclusion of 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.

This application for anticipatory bail is, thus, allowed. (Debangsu Basak, J.) (Bibhas Ranjan De, J.)