Priya Prasad Shaw @ Priya Kumari And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

25.04.2023 Ct. No. 29 KAUSHIK Allowed C.R.M.(A) 1753 of 2023 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Andal Police Station Case No. 128 of 2023 dated 03.04.2023 under Sections 341/323/379/354/354B/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

And In Re : Priya Prasad Shaw @ Priya Kumari & Ors. ...... petitioners Mr. Ayan Bhattacharya Mr. Mir Anwar Mr. Aditya Ratan Tiwary ....for the petitioners Mr. S. S. Imam Mr. R. Jana ....for the State Apparently, the injury suffered by the de-facto complainant was classified as simple hurt.

Considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners in the incident, we grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

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 petitioner no. 3 (Praveen Kumar @ Pravin Kumar) shall meet the

Investigating Officer once a month till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner nos. 1 (Priya Prasad Shaw @ Priya Kumari), 2 (Urmila Devi) and 4 (Amrita Prasad) shall cooperate with the Investigating Officer till the conclusion of the investigation 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. (Debangsu Basak, J.) (Rai Chattopadhyay, J.)