Sagarika Kuilla And ORS. v. State Of West Bengal

06.09.2022 Ct. No. 29 KAUSHIK Allowed C.R.M.(A) 4273 of 2022 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Kharagpur (Local) Police Station Case No. 556 of 2022 dated 11.07.2022 under Sections 447/323/325/307/354B/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

And In Re : Sagarika Kuilla & Ors.

...... petitioners Mr. Rahul Ganguly ....for the petitioners Mr. Madhusudan Sur Mr. Dipankar Pramanik ....for the State None of the injuries that the victim suffered appears to be of grievous hurt.

Apparently, there is a prior police complaint lodged at the behest of the petitioners.

In such circumstances, 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 condition that the petitioner no. 1 (Sagarika Kuilla) shall cooperate with the

Investigating Officer till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner nos. 2 (Guiram Kuilla) and 3 (Jaydev Kuilla) shall meet the Investigating Officer once a month till the conclusion of the investigation and on 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.

This application for anticipatory bail is, thus, allowed. (Debangsu Basak, J.) (Md. Shabbar Rashidi, J.)