Pitish Bhakta @ Pritish And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

02.05.2023 Serial no. 13 [Dd] (Anticipatory Bail) (Allowed) CRM (A) 1846 of 2023 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Tehatta Police Station Case No. 283 of 2023 dated 08.04.2023 under Sections 448/323/325/326/354(B)/34 of the IPC. -AndIn the matter of : Pitish Bhakta @ Pritish & Ors. ... ... Petitioners Ms. Minoti Gomes, Mr. Amanul Islam, Mr. Sourav Mukherjee, Advocates ... ... For the Petitioners Ms Anwar Hossain, Ms. Ratna Ghosh, Advocates ... ...For the State The injuries suffered by the victim are apparently simple in nature. There is a counter police compliant also. Considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners in the incident, 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 further condition that the petitioner nos. 1 and 2 shall report before the Investigating Officer once in a month till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner nos. 3 and 4 shall cooperate with the investigation till its completion and on further 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. Prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners is allowed. CRM (A) 1846 of 2023 is disposed of.

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