Krishna Kumar And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

07.10.2021 Ct. No. 29 KAUSHIK Allowed C.R.M. 6352 of 2021 (via video conference) In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Beliaghata Police Station Case No. 278 of 2019 dated 01.12.2019 under Sections 498A/406/324/307/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Sections 3/ 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.

And In Re : Krishna Kumar & Ors.

...... petitioners Mr. Sabir Ahmed .....for the petitioners Mr. Shubhojyoti Dutta Ms. Snigdha Saha .....for the de-facto complainant Mr. N.P. Agarwal Mr. Pratick Bose ....for the State Petitioners seek anticipatory bail.

Learned advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that, the petitioner no. 1 is an employee with the same bank as that of the de-facto complainant.

State and the de-facto complainant are represented. Considering the materials in the case diary and considering the nature of allegation, 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/- 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 conditions that the petitioner no. 1 (Krishna Kumar) shall meet the investigating officer once in a month till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner nos. 2 to 5 will cooperate with the investigation and shall appear before the jurisdictional court and pray for regular bail within a period of four weeks from date. This application for anticipatory bail is, thus, allowed. (Debangsu Basak, J.) (Ananda Kumar Mukherjee, J.)