Calcutta High CourtCRM (A)/2885/2025partly allowed

Ranjana Mandal @ Rinki Mandal And ORS. v. State Of West Bengal

2025-09-17Hon'Ble Justice Jay Sengupta2 pages

AD 31 September 17, 2025 Ct. 28 SG CRM(A) 2885 of 2025 Allowed An application for anticipatory bail under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 in connection with English Bazar P.S. Case No.776 of 2019 dated 03.08.2019 under Section 306 of the IPC, 1860. And In the matter of:

Ranjana Mandal @ Rinki Mandal and others ... petitioners Mr. Abhinaba Patra ... for the petitioners Mr. S.S. Imam Mr. Dipankar Paramanick ... for the State Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the application for anticipatory bail in respect of the petitioner No.3 is not pressed as he has already been arrested. Accordingly, the application for anticipatory bail so far as the petitioner No.3 (Nayan Mandal) is concerned is dismissed as not pressed.

Learned counsel for the petitioners further submits that the petitioner No.1 is the wife of the victim while the petitioner No.2 is the brother-in-law of the victim. The FIR was lodged in 2019. However, warrant of arrest was issued in June, 2025. A co-accused was granted anticipatory bail by this Court.

Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail.

Considering the materials available in the case diary, the alleged role ascribed to the petitioner Nos.1 and 2 and the fact that a co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court on 04.08.2025 in CRM(A) 2078 of 2025 and a charge-sheet has been submitted, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner Nos.1 and 2. In the event of arrest, the petitioner Nos.1 and 2 (Ranjana Mandal @ Rinki Mandal and Rajib Mandal) shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.

10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of like amount each, one of whom must be local, 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 corresponding to Section 482(2) of the BNSS, 2023 and on the further conditions that the petitioner Nos.1 and 2 shall not threaten or intimidate witnesses. The application for anticipatory bail is, thus, disposed of. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance of requisite formalities.

(Jay Sengupta, J.)