Panchanan House Maid @ Panchu Dey v. State Of West Bengal
27.01.2026 Court No.28 Item No. 15 tbsr Allowed CRM (A) 4305 of 2025 In Re: - An application for anticipatory bail under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 in connection with Bidhannagar South P.S. Case No.200 of 2025 dated 15.11.2025 under Sections 109/115(2)/117(2)/126(2)/127(7)/351(2)/3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
And In the matter of: Panchanan House Maid @ Panchu Dey ....Petitioner.
Mr. Moyukh Mukherjee Ms. Sagnika Banerjee Ms. Sarmistha Basak ....for the petitioner Mr. Madhusudhan Sur, ld. APP Mr. Tirupati Mukherjee ....for the State Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is a house help in a family, which has an ongoing property dispute with other family members. A civil suit was filed and an injunction was granted in favour of the persons in whose house the petitioner is presently working as a house help. However, the said other family members, in collusion with the local police authorities have been initiating criminal cases one after another over the same dispute. Prior to this, four FIRs were initiated. Three of those proceedings were stayed by this Court and in one, there was an order passed for taking no coercive measures. No prima facie case is made out in the present FIR, especially so far as the present petitioner is concerned. Some other co-accused were granted anticipatory bail by this Court on 11.12.2025.
Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. He relies on the statements of the FIR and the statements of witnesses and the injury report. It is the allegation that the present petitioner had misbehaved with the informant in front of police officers.
Considering the above and the other materials available in the case diary, I do not think that custodial interrogation of the petitioner is required in this case and I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner.
In the event of arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- 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 the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 corresponding to Section 482(2) of the BNSS, 2023 and on further condition that the petitioner shall cooperate with investigation, shall meet the I.O. once a fortnight till submission of report in final form and shall not threaten or intimidate witnesses.
The application for anticipatory bail is, thus, allowed. Urgent photostat certified copies of this order may be delivered to the learned Advocates for the parties, if applied for, upon compliance of all formalities.
(Jay Sengupta, J.)