Rita Chatterje And ORS. v. State Of West Bengal

25.01.2024 Item No.64 Ct. No. 29 PG/KS Allowed C.R.M.(A) 5107 of 2023 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Gobardanga Police Station Case No.257 of 2023 dated 09.09.2023 under Sections 498A/ 325/ 406/ 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 with Sections 3 & 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. And In the matter of :Rita Chatterjee & Ors.

......Petitioners.

Ms. Rita Patra ....for the Petitioners.

Mr. Narayan Prasad Agarwalla Mr. A. A. Siddique ....for the State.

Petitioners before us are the in laws of the de facto complainant.

Husband was afforded anticipatory bail in CRM (A) 5097 of 2023.

On the parity of the same reasoning, 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/- (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 nos.2 and 3 will report before the Investigating Officer once in a fortnight till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner no.1 will cooperate with the investigation and on condition that the petitioner nos.2 and 3 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. C.R.M.(A) 5107 of 2023 is disposed of.

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