Ravi Jaiswal Vs the Union of India — Anticipatory Bail | Calcutta HC (2025)

Ravi Jaiswal Vs the Union of India — Anticipatory Bail | Calcutta HC (2025)

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Anticipatory bail granted to petitioner Ravi Jaiswal: in the event of arrest, release on bail upon bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of like amount each, to the satisfaction of the Arresting Officer, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS; petitioner to appear before the jurisdictional Court and pray for regular bail within two weeks; application for anticipatory bail disposed of accordingly.

Issue for consideration

Whether anticipatory bail should be granted to the petitioner Ravi Jaiswal in connection with New Jalpaiguri R.P.F. Post Case no. 21/2024, notwithstanding the objection raised by learned counsel for the opposite party. +2 more

Court's answer

The petitioner’s name transpired from the statement of the co-accused.

Ratio / Principle

On the record, Tuntun Bhagat — and not the petitioner — is the proprietor of Bhagat Enterprises.

Key takeaways

No recovery was made from the petitioner, the final report has been submitted, and custodial interrogation of the petitioner does not appear to be necessary.ratio¶16
This Court was inclined to grant, and accordingly granted, anticipatory bail to the petitioner.ratio¶17
In the event of arrest, the petitioner is to be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of the Arresting Officer, subject to the conditions under Section 482(2) BNSS, and shall appear before the jurisdictional Court and pray for regular bail within two weeks.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

ANTICIPATORY BAIL — High Court at Calcutta (Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri), C.R.M. (A) 385 of 2025, decided 10.07.2025 by Suvra Ghosh, J.: Application under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 by Ravi Jaiswal, arraigned in connection with New Jalpaiguri R.P.F. Post Case no. 21/2024 dated 04/10/2024 under Section 3A of the Railway Property (Unlawful Possession), Act 1966. Petitioner's name had transpired from the statement of the co-accused; though he was said to be proprietor of Bhagat Enterprises, record revealed one Tuntun Bhagat as proprietor. No recovery was made from the petitioner, the final report had been submitted, and custodial interrogation did not appear necessary. Despite objection by counsel for the opposite party (Union of India), anticipatory bail was granted: release in the event of arrest upon bond of Rs.10,000/- with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of the Arresting Officer, subject to Section 482(2) BNSS conditions, with liberty/direction to appear before the jurisdictional Court and pray for regular bail within two weeks. Application disposed of; case diary to be returned.

9 10.07.2025 jb. jdt Allowed

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri Criminal Miscellaneous Jurisdiction

C.R.M. (A) 385 of 2025

In Re : An application under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 filed in connection with New Jalpaiguri R.P.F. Post Case no. 21/2024 dated 04/10/2024 under Section 3A of the Railway Property (Unlawful Possession), Act 1966.

And

In Re : Ravi Jaiswal

Mr. Sayan De Ms. Esha Acharya Mr. Rimik Chakraborty … for the petitioner. Mr. Sudipto Kr. Mazumder Mr. Tridip Saha Mr. Sourab Kar

… for the Union of India

Supplementary affidavit filed by the petitioner is

taken on record.

Heard learned counsels for the parties.

Learned counsel for the opposite party raises objection to the prayer for anticipatory bail.

I have considered the material on record.

The petitioner’s name has transpired from the statement of the co-accused. Though the petitioner is said to be the proprietor of Bhagat Enterprises, record reveals that one Tuntun Bhagat is the proprietor of the said

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company. No recovery has been made from the petitioner. Final report has been submitted. Custodial interrogation of the petitioner does not appear to be necessary.

In view of the above, this Court is inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

Accordingly, in the event of arrest, the petitioner namely Ravi Jaiswal be released on bail upon furnishing bond of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand), with two sureties of like amount each, to the satisfaction of the Arresting Officer and also subject to the conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS. The petitioner shall appear before the jurisdictional Court and pray for regular bail within two weeks from date.

The application for anticipatory bail is thus disposed

of.

Case diary be returned.

All parties shall act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court.

Urgent certified website copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance with all requisite formalities.

(Suvra Ghosh, J.)