Sk. Rasid Ali @ Sk. Rasid v. State Of West Bengal And ANR

07.05.2024 Item No.54 Ct. No. 29 CHC Allowed C.R.M.(A) 1488 of 2024 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Khejuri Police Station Case No. 600 of 2023 dated 04.10.2023 under Sections 376/506/509 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, pending before the Court of the Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate at Contai, Purba Medinipur. And In the matter of : Sk. Rasid Ali @ Sk. Rasid ...... petitioner Mr. Sabir Ahmed, Mr. Sobhan Majumder, Ms. Kalpita Paul ....for the petitioner Ms. Sayanti Santra, Ms. Purnima Ghosh ....for the State Petitioner prays for anticipatory bail.

There is a delay of about a month in the lodging of the First Information Report.

The statement of the victim recorded under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code suggests that, there were preexisting disputes between the private parties. Medical examination was refused.

In such circumstances, we grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

Accordingly, we direct that in the event of arrest the petitioner shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand only), with two sureties of Signed By :

CHINMOY CHAKRABORTY High Court of Calcutta 7 th of May 2024 03:50:10 PM

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 will report before the Investigating Officer once in a week till the conclusion of investigation and on condition that the petitioner 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 petitioner in Court including cancelling the anticipatory bail granted without further reference to this Court. This application for anticipatory bail is, thus, allowed. CRM(A) 1488 of 2024 is disposed of.

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