Vivek Kumar And ANR. v. State Of West Bengal

20.05.2024 Item No.50 Ct. No. 29 CHC Allowed C.R.M.(A) 1705 of 2024 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Haldia Police Station Case No. 191 of 2023 dated 01.12.2023 under Sections 323/325/341/307/34 of the Indian Penal Code 1860 and under Section 4 of the West Bengal Prohibition of Ragging in Educational Institutions Act 2000, pending before the Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, at Haldia, Purba Medinipur.

And In the matter of : Vivek Kumar & anr.

...... petitioners Mr. Arnab Chatterjee, Ms. Poulami Bose ....for the petitioners Ms. Sayanti Santra, Ms. Sonali Bhar ....for the State Petitioners before us are engineering students. Apparently, they were involved in ragging of some first year students. Educational institution apparently took steps against the petitioners.

Police filed charge-sheet.

Considering the fact that, the petitioners before us students, we deem it appropriate 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 Signed By :

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

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 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) 1705 of 2024 is disposed of.

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