Kushal Agarwal vs State Of West Bengal

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2022 Supreme(Cal) 1004

TAPABRATA CHAKRABORTY, SUGATO MAJUMDAR
Kushal Agarwal – Appellant
Versus
State Of West Bengal – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Siddhartha Luthra, Advocate, Milan Bhattacharya, Advocate, Sandipan Ganguly, Advocate, Debasish Roy, Advocate, Nilay Sengupta, Advocate, Sabyasachi Banerjee, Advocate, Ayan Bhattacharya, Advocate, Ankit Agarwala, Advocate, Rudradipta Nandy, Advocate, Mithun Singh, Advocate, Sujit Banerjee, Advocate, Saswata Gopal Mukherjee, Advocate, Sudip Ghosh, Advocate, Sonali Das, Advocate, Kalyan Bandopadhyay, Advocate, Ajay Agarwal, Advocate, Somopriyo Chowdhury, Advocate, Sanket Sarangi, Advocate, Arka Banerjee, Advocate

JUDGMENT

Tapabrata Chakraborty, J. - apprehending arrest in connection with alipore Police Station Case No.15 of 2021 dated 17th February, of 2021 under Sections 498a/306/34 and later added Sections 406/304B of the Indian Penal Code (in short, IPC), the present application has been preferred.

2. Shorn of unnecessary details, the facts are that upon negotiation between two families, the petitioner's marriage with the victim was held on 9th February, 2020 at Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur. after marriage the couple immediately left for honeymoon to Dubai and Oman for about six days. Upon returning to India, the petitioner's family arranged a post marriage celebration on 23rd February, 2020 in their ancestral house at Purulia. Thereafter the couple attended various parties and ceremonies together. From November, 2020 till 11th February, 2021, the couple visited different places. But unfortunately thereafter on 16th February, 2021 the victim fell down from the 3rd floor of her matrimonial house and succumbed to her injuries. On 17th February, 2021 the victim's father lodged a complaint and the present case was registered under Sections 498a/306/34 of IPC. In continuation with the said comp