Sujeet Kumar @ Jugo v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.7036 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-296 Year-2022 Thana- GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL COMP. District- Begusarai ====================================================== SUJEET KUMAR @ JUGO Son of Kishori Singh Resident of VillageMatihani, P.S.- Matihani, District- Begusarai ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Murlidhar Mishra For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Humayou Ahmad Khan ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 13-04-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable u/s 30 (a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018.

Altogether 607.32 liters of foreign liquor is said to have been recovered from the place of occurrence. The allegation against the petitioner is that he alongwith others are indulged in the business of illicit liquor.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is quite innocent and has committed no offence. No incriminating article has been recovered from the conscious physical possession of the petitioner. He has no concern either

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.7036 of 2023(2) dt.13-04-2023 2/3 with the seized liquor or any trade of liquor. He has been falsely implicated in this case at the instance of his enemy. He was not apprehended on the spot and his name transpired in the case only on the basis of secret information. Petitioner has two criminal antecedent.

Petitioner is agreed to deposit a sum of Rs.50,000.00 (Rupees Fifty Thousand) in the account of Bihar State Bar Council Welfare Fund, Patna, bearing Account No.31861041899, IFSC Code: SBIN0010340, State Bank of India, Branch: High Court Campus, Patna.

Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court below, where the case is pending/Successor court, in connection with Excise P.S. Case No.296 of 2022, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C, with the following conditions:

(i) That one of the bailors will be a close relative of the petitioner, who will give an affidavit giving genealogy as to

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.7036 of 2023(2) dt.13-04-2023 3/3 how he is related with the petitioner. He will also undertake to inform the Court if there is any change in the address of the petitioner.

(2) The bailor shall also state on affidavit that he will inform the Court concerned if the petitioner is implicated in any other case of similar nature and thereafter the Court below will be at liberty to initiate proceeding for cancellation of anticipatory bail on the ground of misuse.

The bail bond of the petitioner shall be accepted by the learned Court below on showing receipt of deposit of aforesaid amount in the Bihar State Bar Council Welfare Fund. (Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) shikha/- U T