Dilip Kumar Paul @ Ranjan Paul v. State Of West Bengal And ANR

19.06.2026 Court No.28 Item No.27 tbsr Allowed CRM (A) 1478 of 2026 In Re: - An application for anticipatory bail under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 in connection with Gangarampur P.S. Case No.167 of 2026 dated 26.03.2026 under Sections 69/89/351(2)/316(2)/3(5) of the BNS, 2023. And In the matter of: Dilip Kumar Paul @ Ranjan Paul ....Petitioner.

Mr. Kaushik Choudhury Mr. Dwaipayan Panda ....for the petitioner Mr. Sayan Mukherjee ....for the State Report filed on behalf of the State is taken on record. Despite service of notice upon the de facto complainant, she is not represented.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is not the principal accused in this case. It is alleged in the FIR that the principal accused took the victim girl to the petitioner to have her foetus aborted. The petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State relies on the case diary and opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. He refers to the statements of witnesses and the statement of the victim recorded before the learned Magistrate. There are local witnesses who have indentified the present petitioner as a quack doctor. However, there is no medical document present in the case diary either regarding the pregnancy of the victim lady or regarding the abortion.

Considering the above and the other materials available in the case diary, I do not think that custodial interrogation of the petitioner is required in this case and I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the present petitioner.

In the event of arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- with two sureties of like amount each, one of whom must be local, 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 corresponding to Section 482(2) of the BNSS, 2023 and on further condition that the petitioner shall cooperate with investigation, shall meet the I.O. once a week till submission of report in final form and shall not threaten or intimidate witnesses.

The application for anticipatory bail is, thus, allowed. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order may be supplied to the parties expeditiously, if applied for.

(Jay Sengupta, J.)