Ranjeet Ray v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.10859 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-553 Year-2023 Thana- BIDUPUR District- Vaishali ====================================================== RANJEET RAY S/O MADAN RAY R/O VILLAGE- KUTUBPUR, P.SBIDUPUR, DIST.- VAISHALI AT HAJIPUR. ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Bijay Bhushan Prasad For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Humayou Ahmad Khan ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 29-02-2024
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 272 and 273 of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 30 liters of liquor from a motorcycle.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated based on the fact that he is the owner of the seized motorcycle. It is further submitted that no prudent person would
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.10859 of 2024(2) dt.29-02-2024 2/2 use his own vehicle for committing an occurrence and thus would create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated, it is next submitted that petitioner was completely unaware that his friend would misuse the vehicle in the manner as alleged.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
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 trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 1,000/- (Rupees One Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Bidupur P.S. Case No. 553 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T