Manas Mondal v. The State Of West Bengal

09.07.2024 SL No.18 Court No.29 TN (Allowed) CRM (A) 2230 of 2024 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed in connection with Santiniketan Police Station Case No.97 of 2024 dated 02.04.2024 under Sections 498A/107/307/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

And In the matter of : Manas Mondal.

- petitioner.

Mr. Tapas Kr. Ghosh, Mr. Tanmoy Chowdhury ....for the petitioner.

Mr. Md. Anwar Hossain, Mr. Md. Firoz Beg ... for the State.

1. The petitioner is the husband of the de facto complainant. It is submitted that all the co-accused are on anticipatory bail. The petitioner has been falsely implicated.

2. The learned Counsel for the State has produced the case diary.

3. Considering the materials available in the case diary, the nature and extent of complicity of the petitioner in the commission of the alleged offence and the fact that coaccused are on anticipatory bail and also charge sheet has already been filed, we are of the view that custodial interrogation of the petitioner is not necessary.

4. Accordingly, we direct that in the event of arrest, the petitioner, namely, Manas Mondal shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/-, with two sureties of Signed By :

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like amount each, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the arresting officer and also subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. It is further directed that the present accused petitioner shall appear before the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bolpur, Birbhum within two weeks from date and pray for regular bail.

5. It is further directed that the petitioner shall appear each and every date of hearing 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 presence of the petitioner in court including cancelling the anticipatory bail granted without further reference to this court.

6. Accordingly, the application for anticipatory bail is disposed of.

7. All parties shall act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court. (Soumen Sen, J.) (Uday Kumar, J.) Signed By :

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