Sumon Mondal v. State Of West Bengal

20.05.2024 Item No.23 Ct. No. 29 CHC Allowed C.R.M.(A) 1673 of 2024 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Saktipur Police Station Case No. 293/2023 dated 19.12.2023 under Sections 498A/354A/304B/306/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Sections 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1968, pending before the Learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Murshidabad at Berhampore.

And In the matter of : Sumon Mondal ...... petitioner Mr. Somnath Adhikary ....for the petitioner Mr. Suman De, Mr. Abhishek Verma ....for the State Affidavit-of-service filed in Court be taken on record. None appears for the de facto complainant.

Police filed charge-sheet.

Other co-accused were enlarged on bail by the jurisdictional Court.

Need for placing the petitioner in custody at this stage is not felt.

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 like amount each, to the satisfaction of the arresting officer and Signed By :

CHINMOY CHAKRABORTY High Court of Calcutta 21 st of May 2024 04:04:25 PM

also be subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 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) 1673 of 2024 is disposed of.

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