Sintu Senapati v. The State Of West Bengal

AD 20 March 5, 2026 Ct. 28 SG CRM(A) 106 of 2026 Allowed An application for anticipatory bail under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 in connection with Panskura P.S. Case No.1083 of 2025 dated 06.12.2025 under Sections 189(2)/285/126(2)/3(5) of the BNS 2023. And In the matter of: Sintu Senapati ... petitioner Mr. Supratic Roy Mr. Suvajit Roy Ms. Mahuya Maity ... for the petitioner Mr. Bibaswan Bhattacharya Ms. Seema Biswas ... for the State Copies of UPI transactions, as filed in Court by the petitioner, are taken on record. Copies of the same are handed over to learned counsel for the State. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is being falsely implicated in several cases because of allegiance to the opposite political dispensation.

In the present case, it was alleged that he, along with others, stopped an ambulance which was supposedly going to pick up a patient during a demonstration. The time of occurrence is given in the FIR is at 4.30 pm on 06.12.2025. However, the UPI transactions would show that he was present in Kolkata and New Town at the relevant date between 3.05 pm and 5 pm.

Learned counsel for the State strongly opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail and relies on the statements of witnesses present in the case diary.

Considering the above and the other materials available in the case diary, 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/- (rupees ten thousand) 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 the further conditions that the petitioner shall cooperate with the investigation, shall meet the investigating officer 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 copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance of requisite formalities.

(Jay Sengupta, J.)