Judgment · High Court

In Re : Sri Debajyoti Das @ Debojyoti Das & Ors. ...… petitioners Mr. Pratick Ghosh Mr. Siddhartha Sarkar Mr. Prasad Bhattacharya .…for the petitioners Mr. Neguive Ahmed Ms. Trina Mitra .…for the State Affidavit of service filed in Court be taken on record. There is a proceeding pending with regard to the custody of the child. The police complaint is one of kidnapping against the person, who is the father of the child and in respect of which, there is a proceeding pending before the Child Welfare Committee. 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 2 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 petitioners shall meet the Investigating Officer as and when called for 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.)