Abhay Pada Ghosh And ANR. v. State Of West Bengal

18.05.2022 Serial no.38 Ct. No. 29 Aloke CRM (A) 2230 of 2022 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Kotulpur Police Station Case No. 20 of 2022 dated 16.02.2022 under Sections 498A/313/307/406 of the Indian Penal Code read with Sections 3 & 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

-AndIn the matter of : Sri Abhay Pada Ghosh & Anr. ... ... Petitioners Mr. Jayanta Narayan Chatterjee, Advocate Mr. Nazir Ahmed, Advocate Ms. Nandini Chatterjee, Advocate Ms. Ritushree Banerjee, Advocate Ms. Pritha Sinha, Advocate ... ... For the Petitioners Ms. Zareen N. Khan, Advocate Mr. Ashok Das, Advocate ... ...For the State Petitioners seek anticipatory bail.

Considering the fact that the husband was enlarged on bail.

Considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners therein as transpiring from the materials in the case diary, we are inclined to 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 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 petitioner no. 1 will report before the Investigating Officer once in a fortnight till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner no. 2 will cooperate with 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.

The prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners is allowed.

CRM (A) 2230 of 2022 is disposed of.

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