Munna Ansari v. State Of West Bengal And ANR

21.05.2025 Item No.23 Ct.No.34 rc.

Allowed C.R.M. (M) 380 of 2025 In Re : An Application for bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure read with Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 in connection with Khardah Police Station Case No. 544 of 2019 dated 28.07.2019. And In Re :

Munna Ansari ... Petitioner Mr. Moyukh Mukherjee Mr. Abhijit Singh Ms. Sagnika Banerjee Mr. Santa Das Mr. Rohit Guha Thakurata Mr. Koustav Bhattacharjee ... for the Petitioner Ms. Subhasree Patel Ms. Trisha Rakshit ... For the State Mr. K. Husen ...for the defacto complainant The petitioner is in custody for more than eight months and prays for bail.

Allegation against the petitioner is that he cohabitated with the defacto complainant on an assurance of marriage. A child is born in the said relationship.

Learned counsels for the petitioner as well as defacto complainant submit that they are married and their child is five years old at present.

In view of such fact, further detention of the petitioner is not required and he may be granted bail.

Accordingly, prayer for bail of the petitioner is allowed.

The petitioner Munna Ansari be released on bail upon furnishing bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand only), with two sureties of like amount each, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barrackpore subject to condition that he shall remain within the jurisdiction of the learned trial Court and shall furnish the address where he shall presently reside before the learned trial Court, Investigating Officer and the Officer-in-Charge of the concerned police station under whose jurisdiction he shall henceforth reside. He shall appear before the learned trial Court on every date of hearing. He shall not intimidate witnesses or tamper with evidence in any manner whatsoever.

In the event the petitioner fails to comply with any of the conditions as mentioned above without justifiable cause, the learned trial Court shall be at liberty to cancel his bail in accordance with law without further reference to this Court. The application for bail is, thus, disposed of. Case Diary be returned.

Urgent certified website copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance with all requisite formalities.

(Suvra Ghosh, J.)