Keya Roy v. State Of West Bengal And ANR

07/01/2026 D/L - 4 Court No.28 S. Kundu Allowed C.R.M.(A) 4256 of 2025 In Re: An application for anticipatory bail under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023. In connection with Lake P.S case no. 138 of 2023 dated 1/6/2023 under Sections 417/377/354/504/509/376/34 of the IPC.

In the matter of: Keya Roy

...Petitioner.

Mr. Sandipan Ganguly Mr. Phiroze Edulji Mr. Sourav Chatterjee Mr. Souvik Mitter Ms. S. Kundu ...for the petitioner.

Mr. Koushik Kundu Ms. Debjani Sahu ...for the State.

1. Report filed on behalf of the State is taken on record.

2. Despite service no one appears on behalf of the de-facto complainant.

3. Learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that the petitioner is the unfortunate mother of the principal accused. Against the principal accused, the allegation is that upon giving promise to marry he had entered into relationships with three different girls and thereafter, refused to marry any of them. He made several other misrepresentations as well. However, the principal accused was arrested and was thereafter granted bail on the very next day. Chargesheet has already been submitted.

4. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. He relies on the statements of witnesses and submits that the petitioner was present during all the three marriage negotiations.

5. Considering the above and the materials available in the case diary, the alleged role ascribed to the present petitioner, the fact that the principal accused was arrested and was thereafter granted bail and the fact that charge-sheet has been submitted, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

6. In the event of arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- each with two sureties of like amount each, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the Arresting Officer and also be subject to further conditions that the petitioner shall not threaten or intimidate the witnesses. The petitioner shall surrender before the learned jurisdictional Court and pray for bail within four weeks from date.

7. Accordingly, the application for anticipatory bail is allowed.

8. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance with requisite formalities.

(Jay Sengupta, J.)