26/02/2026 D/L – 49 Court No.28 S. Kundu Allowed C.R.M.(A) 519 of 2026 In Re: An application for anticipatory bail under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023. In connection with Ausgram P.S case no. 219/2025 dated 15/5/2023 under sections 103(1)/3(5) of the BNS. In the matter of: Ashok Biswas & Anr. ...Petitioners. Mr. Kazi M. Rahaman Mr. Asit Baran Ghosh Ms. Tulika Bag …for the petitioners. Mr. Ranadeb Sengupta Mr. Soukteya Ganguly …for the State. 1. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits as follows. The petitioners are the uncle-in-law and the aunt-in-law of the victim/deceased. It is alleged that the in-laws had set the victim/husband on fire which resulted in his death. Actually, as the wife had returned to her paternal home, the victim went to their house to bring her back. In order to pressurize them, he put fire on himself and thereafter, succumbed to his death. 2. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. He refers to the post-mortem report and the statement of a relative of the father of the victim recorded before the learned Magistrate. However, the statement of the local witness supported the version given by the attending doctor, according to whom, before his death, the victim confided in him that he was trying to pressurize the in-laws by setting himself on fire. 2 3. This is indeed a very unfortunate case of the husband committing suicide after going to his in-laws’ place to bring the wife back. 4. Considering the above, the other materials available in the case diary and the alleged roles ascribed to the present petitioners and the fact that charge sheet has been submitted, I do not think that custodial interrogation of the petitioners is required in this case and I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 5. In the event of arrest, the petitioners shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- each 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 further conditions that the petitioners shall not threaten or intimidate the witnesses. The petitioners shall surrender before the learned jurisdictional Court and pray for bail within four weeks from date and regularly attend the jurisdictional Court. 6. Accordingly, the application for anticipatory bail is allowed. 7. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance with requisite formalities. (Jay Sengupta, J.)