Sonu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.3914 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-290 Year-2021 Thana- VAISHALI District- Vaishali ====================================================== SONU KUMAR SON OF BHOLA BHAGAT R/O VILLAGE - KARNEGI, P.S. - BELSAR, DISTRICT - VAISHALI ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Rakesh Prabhat, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mrs. Pushpa Sinha, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 16-08-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

Let the defect(s), if any, be removed within a period of four weeks.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 413 and 414 of the Indian Penal Code.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent. The informant SHO, Belsar alleges that on 22.07.2021, he received secret information that co-accused Arjun Kumar has kept stolen motorcycle at his house, accordingly, the informant reached the place of occurrence i.e. the house of Arjun Kumar and recovered two stolen motorcycles from his Dalan.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.3914 of 2022(2) dt.16-08-2022 2/3 Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is next submitted that admittedly the recovery was made from the house of Arjun Kumar and it was on the basis of his confessional statement the name of the petitioner transpired during the course of investigation in the present case. It is next submitted that confessional statement, as such, does not have any evidentiary value. It is further submitted that petitioner is a young boy of twenty years of age and is a person with clean antecedent and the entire career would be jeopardized if the petitioner is taken into custody. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

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 from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Vaishali (Beslar O.P.) P.S. Case No. 290 of 2021, subject to the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.3914 of 2022(2) dt.16-08-2022 3/3 conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. and further one of the bailors of the petitioner shall be his father Bhola Bhagat.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T