Ganesh Samanta v. State of West Bengal and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Regular bail allowed under S.439 CrPC / S.483 BNSS 2023 (Suvra Ghosh, J.) in Nadanghat Police Station Case No. 99 of 2025 (Sections 376/506/509 IPC and Section 6 of the Indecent Representation of Women Prohibition Act); charge sheet filed, petitioner in custody over three months; relationship with the married victim found consensual for more than eight years, victim refused medical examination and withheld mobile phone allegedly containing obscene photographs sent by petitioner; release on Rs.10,000 bond with two like sureties (one local) before ACJM, Kalna, Purba Bardhaman, with conditions to attend every hearing and not tamper with evidence or intimidate witnesses.
What did the court decide?
Petitioner Ganesh Samanta to be released on bail on furnishing bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand only) with two sureties of like amount each, one of whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kalna, Purba Bardhaman, subject to conditions that he appear before the learned trial Court on every date of hearing fixed by it and shall not tamper with evidence or intimidate witnesses; in the event he fails to appear on any date fixed without justifiable cause, the trial Court may cancel his bail in accordance with law without further reference to this Court; case diary to be returned.