17/04/2026 D/L – 232 Court No.28 S. Kundu Allowed C.R.M.(A) 1174 of 2026 In Re: An application for anticipatory bail under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023. In connection with Baguiati P.S case no. 140 of 2026 dated 11/04/2026 under Sections 109/115(2)/117(2)/3(5)/316(2)/351(2)/85 of the BNS and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. In the matter of: Anita Agarwal & Anr. ...Petitioners. Mr. Sourav Chatterjee Mr. Abhinav Rakshit Mr. Shivam Bhimsaria …for the petitioners. Mr. Anand Keshari Ms. Suparna Chatterjee …for the State. 1. Learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners submits as follows. The petitioners are the parents-in-law of the daughter of the informant. The marriage between the petitioners’ son and the alleged victim took place about seven years ago. Commonplace allegations have been levelled against all the accused at the in-law’s place. The younger son of the petitioners is to get married on the 20th of this month. In order to put the petitioners in trouble, the informant chose to lodge the FIR against the petitioners on 11/04/2026. There are phone call conversations between the sister of the alleged victim and the fiancee of the petitioners’ son, which would show that the said sister was threatening to have the petitioners picked up by the Police in this case. 2 2. A pen drive containing such conversations, as filed in Court, is taken on record. A copy of the same is handed over to the learned counsel for the State. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. He submits that the investigation is at a nascent stage. It was only after the alleged victim had taken sleeping pills and had to be hospitalized that the present FIR was lodged. However, there is no other injury report present in the case diary. 4. Considering the above, the other materials available in the case diary and the alleged roles ascribed to the present petitioners, 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 cooperate with the investigation and shall not threaten or intimidate the witnesses. The petitioner no. 2 shall meet the Investigating Officer once a fortnight till submission of report in final form. 6. Accordingly, the application for anticipatory bail is allowed. 3 7. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance with requisite formalities. (Jay Sengupta, J.)