Mantu Gopal Roy v. the State of West Bengal and Anr.
Anticipatory bail – Second application
Case brief
What is this about?
Anticipatory bail; Section 482 BNSS 2023; Section 438 CrPC correspondence; second/repeat anticipatory bail application; prior rejection by Coordinate Bench in CRM(A) 1006 of 2025 dated 23.03.2026; charge-sheet already submitted; no change of circumstances; Kuchlibari Police Station Case No. 127 of 2025 dated 18.09.2025; G.R. Case No. 558 of 2025; offences under Sections 329(4)/64/62/117(2)/118(2)/3(5) BNSS 2023; petitioner Mantu Gopal Roy; counsel Sandip Guha Roy, Ananda Paul, Ankita Patodia; State represented by APP Avrojyoti Das and Panchali Deb Sikdar (Nag); de facto complainant counsel Jaydeep Kanta Bhowmik, Sayantan Bhowmik, Shubham Kumar, Jasmin Haque; Calcutta High Court, Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri; Shampa Dutt (Paul), J.; order dated 10.06.2026; prayer rejected; CRM (A) 315 of 2026 disposed of.
What did the court decide?
As the charge-sheet had already been submitted when the earlier anticipatory bail prayer was rejected, the Court found no change of circumstances at this stage.