Shibaprasad Singha And ANR v. State Of West Bengal

20.07.2022 Serial no.6 Aloke CRM (A) 3255 of 2022 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Contai Police Station Case No. 171 of 2022 dated 07.05.2022 under Sections 498A/306/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. -AndIn the matter of : Shibaprasad Singha & Anr. ... ... Petitioners Mr. Anindya Lahiri, Advocate Mr. Samrat Dey Paul, Advocate ... ... For the Petitioners Mr. Saswata Gopal Mukherjee, ld. PP Ms. Baisali Basu, Advocate Mr. Anand Keshari, Advocate ... ...For the State Petitioners seek anticipatory bail.

Considering the fact that the husband of the deceased is in custody and considering the omnibus nature of allegations made against the petitioners and considering the postmortem report of the deceased, we are inclined 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 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 petitioner no. 1 shall meet the Investigating Officer once in a fortnight till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner no.

2 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. Prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners is allowed. CRM (A) 3255 of 2022 is disposed of.

(Debangsu Basak, J.) (Bibhas Ranjan De, J.)