Swarup Dutta And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

19.12.2022 Ct. No. 29 KAUSHIK Allowed C.R.M.(A) 5863 of 2022 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Bishnupur Police Station Case No. 236 of 2022 dated 01.11.2022 under Sections 498A/304B/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

And In Re : Swarup Dutta & Ors.

...... petitioners Mr. Jay Chakraborty Mr. Kazi Sajjad Alam Mr. Sandip Dinda ....for the petitioners Mr. A. G. Mukherjee, learned Public Prosecutor Mr. Aniket Mitra ....for the State Apparently, the victim committed suicide.

The husband is in custody.

The allegations as against the petitioners, apparently, are omnibus and general in nature.

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 (Swarup Dutta) shall meet the Investigating Officer once a week till the conclusion of the investigation and petitioner nos. 2 (Chandana Dutta) and 3 (Sabita Nandi) 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.)