Pintu Chowdhury And ANR. v. The State Of West Bengal

02.02.2024 Serial no. ML 738 Anticipatory Bail [Allowed] Dd CRM (A) 5461 of 2023 In re : An Application for Anticipatory Bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Amherst Street Police Station Case No. 225 of 2023 dated 06.10.2023 under Sections 324/114 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 Thereafter amended as under Sections 324/326/34 IPC (corresponding to GR. (NS) Case No. 765/2023). -AndIn the matter of : Pintu Chowdhury & Anr. ... ... Petitioners Mr. Rajdeep Mazumder, Mr. Moyukh Mukherjee, Mr. Abhijit Singh, Advocates ... ... For the Petitioners Mr. Bibaswan Bhattacharya, Advocate ... ...For the State In an incident of assault, the injured suffered blunt trauma on the scalp caused by bamboo stick.

Considering the nature of injury and 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/- (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 petitioners shall report before the Investigating Officer once in a month till the conclusion of the investigation 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) 5461 of 2023 is disposed of.

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