Bangar Bagani @ Suman Bagani v. The State Of West Bengal

10.07.2024 Item no. 24.

Court No.28.

AB (Allowed) CRM (DB) 1970 of 2024 In Re: An Application for Bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Sankrail Police Station Case No.317 of 2022 Dated 21.03.2022 under Sections 306/34 of the Indian Penal Code And In the matter of : Bangar Bagani @ Suman Bagani ......Petitioner.

Mr. Dipanjan Chatterjee Mr. Asit Nayek, Mr. Rohit Prasad, Ms. Rimpa Adhikari, Ms. Kakan Das ......for the Petitioner.

Mr. Bitoshok Banerjee, Ms. Sonali Bhar ......for the State.

Order dictated in open Court by Apurba Sinha Ray, J. Learned Counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner has been languishing in judicial custody for about 156 days and investigation is complete. Therefore, there is no need for further custodial detention of the present petitioner. Learned Counsel for the State opposes the prayer for bail. According to him, the present petitioner remained absconder for a long period of time and subsequently, he surrendered before the leaned Trial Court.

As the investigation is complete and the charge is of aiding and abetting suicide, we think that there is no need for further custodial detention of the present petitioner. Signed By :

APURBA BANDYOPADHYAY High Court of Calcutta 10 th of July 2024 05:57:42 PM

Accordingly, we direct that the petitioner, namely Bangar Bagani @ Suman Bagani shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/-, with two sureties of like amount each, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Howrah, and on further conditions that he shall not leave the jurisdiction of the concerned police station and shall report to the Officer-in-Charge of the concerned police station once in a fortnight until further orders.

The petitioner shall appear before the trial court on every date of hearing until further orders and shall not intimidate the witnesses and/or tamper with evidence and/or commit any cognizable offence in any manner whatsoever. In the event the petitioner fails to adhere to any of the conditions stipulated above without justifiable cause, the trial court shall be at liberty to cancel the petitioner's bail in accordance with law without further reference to this Court. The application for bail is, accordingly, allowed. All parties shall act in terms of server copy of the order downloaded from the official website of this Court. (Arijit Banerjee, J.) (Apurba Sinha Ray, J.)