Patna High CourtCR. MISC./11546/2024bail granted

Sanny Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2024-03-01Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.11546 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-167 Year-2022 Thana- GURARU District- Gaya ====================================================== Sanny Kumar S/O Pramod Kumar Rai R/O VILLAGE- HARPUR, PS. KATHAIYA, DIST. MUZAFFARPUR.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Ms.Namrata Mishra, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Khurshid Anwar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 01-03-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2016.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of three cases and allegation is of recovery of 100.545 liters of liquor from the car.

4. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a vehicle which does not belong to the petitioner and petitioner came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Arun Kumar in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value. It is

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.11546 of 2024(2) dt.01-03-2024 2/2 also submitted that it appears that the police through Arun Kumar got the petitioner implicated because of his antecedents.

5. The learned APP for the State opposes the anticipatory bail application.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs.15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court below where the case is pending in connection with Guraru P.S. Case No.167 of 2022, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Prakash Narayan U T