Calcutta High CourtCRM (A)/1729/2024allowed

Somnath Singh And ANR. v. State Of West Bengal

2024-05-22Hon'Ble Justice Debangsu Basak,Hon'Ble Justice Md. Shabbar Rashidi2 pages

22.05.2024 Item No.4 Ct. No. 3 CHC Allowed C.R.M.(A) 1729 of 2024 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Dankuni Police Station Case No. 298 of 2023 dated 01.10.2023 under Sections 341/323/325/384/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code, pending before the Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate at Srirampore, Hooghly.

And In the matter of : Somnath Singh & anr.

...... petitioners Mr. Asis Bhattacharyya ....for the petitioners Ms. Sayanti Santra, Mr. Sobhan Gani ....for the State Leave granted to the learned advocate-on-record for the petitioners to correct the cause-title.

Apparently, there are arbitration proceeding pending. Considering the materials in the Case Diary and the nature of the incident, 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, Somnath Signed By :

CHINMOY CHAKRABORTY High Court of Calcutta 22 nd of May 2024 05:03:00 PM

Singh will report before the Investigating Officer once in a week till the conclusion of investigation and petitioner no.2, namely, Suparna Singh 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) 1729 of 2024 is disposed of.

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