Raju Mahto @ Raju Kumar Mahto v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.6727 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-342 Year-2023 Thana- SARAI RANJAN District- Samastipur ====================================================== Raju Mahto @ Raju Kumar Mahto S/O Raj Kumar Mahto VILLAGEJITWARPUR CHAUTH, PS.- SAMASTIPUR MUFFASIL, DIST. SAMASTIPUR, AT PRESENT R/O VILLAGE- NARGOGHI PS. SARAIRANJAN, DIST. SAMASTIPUR.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Mahendra Pratap For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Sharma ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 21-02-2024

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 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 6 liters of liquor, out of which 4 liters of liquor is said to have been recovered from the house of the petitioner.

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. It is also submitted that the house is a joint family property, as such, it cannot be

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6727 of 2024(2) dt.21-02-2024 2/2 alleged with certainty that it was the petitioner who had kept the liquor in the house or the liquor kept in the house was within his knowledge. It is next submitted that after the amendment of Excise Act in the year 2018, the concept of deemed possession and presumed offender has been done away with.

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. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Sarai Ranjan P.S. Case No. 342 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T