Arun Jana @ Tarun Jana And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

03.08.2022 Serial no.14 Aloke CRM (A) 3694 of 2022 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Nandigram Police Station Case No. 0137 of 2022 dated 02.03.2022 under Sections 447/323/325/308/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code. -AndIn the matter of : Arun Jana @ Tarun Jana & Ors. ... ... Petitioners Ms. Minoti Gomes, Advocate Mr. Abdur Rakib, Advocate ... ... For the Petitioners Ms. Anasuya Sinha, Advocate Ms. Jonaki Saha, Advocate ... ...For the State Petitioners seek anticipatory bail.

Learned Advocate appearing for the petitioners submits that the incident arose out of property dispute. Learned Advocate appearing for the State draws the attention to the injury report and the materials in the case diary. Considering the gravity of the offence and the involvement of the petitioners therein as transpiring from the materials in the case diary, 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 nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 shall meet the Investigating Officer once in a fortnight till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner no. 5 and 7 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) 3694 of 2022 is disposed of.

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