Narottam Mandal And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

29.11.2022 Ct. No. 29 KAUSHIK Allowed C.R.M.(A) 5510 of 2022 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Hogalberia Police Station Case No. 241 of 2022 dated 27.07.2022 under Section 368 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. And In Re : Narottam Mandal & Ors.

...... petitioners Mr. Bibaswan Bhattacharya Mr. Asraf Mondal ....for the petitioners Mr. Debabrata Chatterjee Ms. Mousumi Sarkar ....for the State The post mortem report of the victim suggests that the victim committed suicide.

Apparently, the victim was in a relationship with a juvenile. The juvenile was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board and was enlarged on bail.

The present petitioners are the family members of the juvenile.

Considering the involvement of the petitioners as appearing from the materials in the case diary with regard to the incident, 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 nos. 1 (Narottam Mandal), 2 (Rabin Mandal), 3 (Saptam Mandal @ Sattam Mondal), 4 (Uttam Mondal), 5 (Bapi Mondal), 7 (Sourav Mandal) and 8 (Ajoy Mandal) shall meet the Investigating Officer once a month till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner nos. 6 (Itika Mandal) and 9 (Sunanda Mandal) shall cooperate with the Investigating Officer 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.)