Patna High CourtCR. MISC./8008/2024bail granted

Raj Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2024-02-26Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.8008 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-260 Year-2023 Thana- GANGABRIDGE District- Vaishali ====================================================== Raj Kumar S/O AKHILESH KUMAR SINGH @ SAKENDRA SINGH VILLAGE- SAHDULLAHPUR, PS. GANGA BRIDGE, DIST. VAISHALI. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Anuj Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Manoj Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 26-02-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Ganga Bridge P.S. Case No.260/2023 registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 75 litres of liquor from a vehicle parked at the back door of the house of Mukul Kumar. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he is not the owner of the vehicle and he came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone when

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.8008 of 2024(2) dt.26-02-2024 2/2 petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent. It is also submitted that the petitioner has no concern with Mukul Kumar.

4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

5. 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.500/- (Rupees five hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Special Judge Excise Court No.I, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Ganga Bridge P.S. Case No.260/2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T