20/04/2026 D/L – 13 Court No.28 S. Kundu Rejected C.R.M.(A) 1075 of 2026 In Re: An application for anticipatory bail under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023. In connection with English Bazar P.S case no. 505 of 2025 dated 20/03/2025 under sections 313/506/34 of the IPC read with Section 6 of the POCSO Act. In the matter of: Sagar Mandal ...Petitioner. Mr. Sovan Das Gupta Ms. Swagata Sen …for the petitioner. Mr. Tanmay Khan Mr. Arup Kr. Bhowmick …for the de-facto complainant. Mr. Anupam Das Adhikary Ms. Trisha Rakshit …for the State. 1. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is a student of medicine. He is not the principal accused. The principal accused has already got married to the alleged victim and was arrested and was thereafter granted bail. 2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the de-facto complainant opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. 3. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State also opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. He also refers to the statements of the 17 year old victim girl made before the Police, the Child Welfare Committee and the learned Magistrate. According to her, she was in a relationship with the principal accused. However, after the break up, 2 the present petitioner came and claimed that he would settle the matter. Instead, he took advantage of the minor girl and sexually assaulted her. It is another thing that thereafter, the alleged victim got married to the principal accused with whom she had been in a romantic relationship. 4. Considering the above and the other incriminating materials available in the case diary, I do not consider this to be a fit case to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 5. Accordingly, the application for anticipatory bail is rejected. (Jay Sengupta, J.)