Asit Biswas And ORS. v. State Of West Bengal

03.05.2024 Item No.4 Ct. No. 29 CHC Allowed C.R.M.(A) 1572 of 2024 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Palashipara Police Station Case No. 43 of 2024 dated 20.01.2024 under Sections 306/34 of the Indian Penal Code, pending before the Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Tehatta, Nadia. And In the matter of : Asit Biswas & ors.

...... petitioners Mr. Atis Kumar Biswas ....for the petitioners Mr. Shekhar Barman ....for the State Petitioners pray for anticipatory bail.

Apparently, the victim committed suicide.

As to whether, the petitioners were involved in the abetment to commit suicide may be decided at the trial. 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 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.1, namely, Asit Biswas, petitioner no.2, namely, Goutam Biswas and petitioner no.3, Signed By :

CHINMOY CHAKRABORTY High Court of Calcutta 3 rd of May 2024 03:43:51 PM

namely, Uttam Kumar Biswas will report before the Investigating Officer once in a month till the conclusion of investigation and petitioner no.4, namely, Mousumi Mondal and petitioner no.5, namely, Falguni Mondal will cooperate with the investigation 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.

This application for anticipatory bail is, thus, allowed. CRM(A) 1572 of 2024 is disposed of.

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