Ranjit Roy @ Ranjit Ray v. The State Of West Bengal And ANR

04.10.2024 Item no. 45.

Court No.28.

AB (Allowed) CRM (DB) 3032 of 2024 In Re: An Application for Bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973/Under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 in connection with Jhargram Police Station Case No.94 of 2024 Dated 27.03.2024 under Sections 363/365/366/376 of the Indian Penal Code read with Sections 9/10/11 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act and Section 6 of the POCSO Act And In the matter of : Ranjit Roy @ Ranjit Ray ......Petitioner.

Mr. S. Das Mahapatra, Ms. Madhuri Sinha ......for the Petitioner.

Mr. Avishek Sinha, Ms. Debadrita Mondal ......for the State.

Mr. Suraman Sarkar .....for the Defacto complainant. Dictated by Apurba Sinha Ray, J.

1.

The petitioner says that he is in custody for five months. There is no incriminating material against him and as such, he is entitled to an order of bail.

2.

Learned Counsel for the State opposes the prayer for bail.

3.

We have gone through the materials on record including the statement of the victim girl recorded under Section 164 Cr.P.C. We find that this is a fit case for granting bail to the petitioner.

4.

Accordingly, we direct that the petitioner, namely, Ranjit Roy @ Ranjit Ray shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/-, with two sureties of Signed By :

APURBA BANDYOPADHYAY High Court of Calcutta 4 th of October 2024 05:38:09 PM

like amount each, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the learned Judge, Special Court under the POCSO Act at Jhargram, and on further conditions that he shall not enter the jurisdiction of Jhargram Police Station except for attending the court proceedings and shall provide the address where he shall presently reside to the Officer in Charge of the concerned police station and shall meet the Officer in Charge of the concerned police station within whose jurisdiction he shall presently reside once in a fortnight until further orders.

5.

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.

6.

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.

7.

The application for bail is, accordingly, allowed. 8.

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.)