Ranjit Mondal And ANR v. State Of West Bengal

04.11.2022 Serial no. 12 [Dd] (Anticipatory Bail) (Allowed) CRM (A) 5061 of 2022 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Kaliachak Police Station Case No. 238 of 2022 dated 01.03.2022 under Sections 406/409/420/471/120B/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

-AndIn the matter of : Ranjit Mondal & Anr.

... ... Petitioners Mr. Bibaswan Bhattacharyya, Ms. Oindrila Ghosh, Advocates ... ... For the Petitioners Mr. Ranabir Roy Chowdhury, Mr. Sandip Chakraborty, Advocates ... ...For the State Apparently, the first petitioner got benefited out of a payment under a Government Scheme although he was not involved therein. The first petitioner returned such money. In such circumstances, 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 further condition that the petitioner no. 1 shall report before the Investigating Officer as and when called for till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner no. 2 shall cooperate with the investigation till its completion 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) 5061 of 2022 is disposed of.

(Debangsu Basak, J.) (Md. Shabbar Rashidi, J.)