Ritubrata Goswami v. State Of West Bengal

CRM (A) 2134 of 2022 13.05.2022 Sl. 06 Court No.29 suvayan (Allowed) In Re: - An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with English Bazar (Women) P.S. Case No. 74 of 2022 dated 05/04/2022 under Sections 376/417 of the Indian Penal Code. And In the matter of: Ritubrata Goswami ....petitioner.

Mr. Sourav Chatterjee Mr. Aditya Tiwari Ms. Namrata Chatterjee ...for the petitioner.

Mr. Sarjoti Dutta ...for the State.

Mr. Arup Kumar Bhowmick ...for the de facto complainant.

Petitioner seeks anticipatory bail.

Learned Advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was falsely implicated.

Learned Advocate appearing for the State draws the attention of the Court to the statement of the victim recorded under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The de facto complainant is represented.

Considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioner therein and considering the statement of the victim recorded under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, we grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

Accordingly, we direct that in the event of arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail upon furnishing a Bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand Only) 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 will report before the Investigating Officer once in a fortnight till the conclusion of the investigation and on condition that the petitioner 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 petitioner in Court including cancelling the anticipatory bail granted without further reference to this Court.

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

CRM (A) 2134 of 2022 is, thus disposed of.

(Debangsu Basak, J.) (Bibhas Ranjan De, J.)