Archana Saha And ORS. v. State Of West Bengal

18.04.2024 Item No.59 Ct. No. 29 CHC Allowed C.R.M.(A) 1262 of 2024 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Raghunathganj Police Station Case No. 76 of 2023 dated 20.01.2024 under Sections 498A/304B/302/34 of the Indian Penal Code, pending before the Learned ACJM, Jangipur, Murshidabad.

And In the matter of : Archana Saha & ors.

...... petitioners Mr. Sandip Chakraborty, Mr. Koustav Das ....for the petitioners Mr. Suman De ....for the State Petitioners pray for anticipatory bail.

Husband was taken into custody.

Apparently, the victim committed suicide.

Petitioners before us are the in-laws of the victim. Police filed charge-sheet.

Materials in the Case Diary do not suggest requirement of placing any of the petitioners before us in custody particularly in view of police filing charge-sheet.

In such circumstances, 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 Signed By :

CHINMOY CHAKRABORTY High Court of Calcutta 18 th of April 2024 05:37:47 PM

officer and also be subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and on condition that 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. CRM(A) 1262 of 2024 is disposed of.

(Debangsu Basak, J.) (Md. Shabbar Rashidi, J.)