Patna High CourtCR. MISC./8018/2024bail granted

Pradip Sahani @ Langad @ Pradeep Sahani @ Langada @ Pradeep Kumar Sahani v. The State Of Bihar

2024-02-26Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.8018 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-172 Year-2023 Thana- VISHAMBHARPUR District- Gopalganj ====================================================== PRADIP SAHANI @ LANGAD @ PRADEEP SAHANI @ LANGADA @ PRADEEP KUMAR SAHANI S/O- HARI SAHANI R/O- VILLAGE- NAYA TOLA BHATWA, BISHUNPURA, P.S. - YADOPUR (JADOPUR), (WRONGLY STATED IN F.I.R AS P.S.- KUCHAIKOTE), DIST.- GOPALGANJ.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Lokesh Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Shyam Bihari Singh, A.P.P.

====================================================== 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 a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a) and 41 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2023.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

4. Allegation is of recovery of 429.600 litres of liquor from a boat.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.8018 of 2024(2) dt.26-02-2024 2/2 to implicate someone when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent and is also not the owner of the boat.

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

7. 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 court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Vishambharpur P.S. Case No. 172 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T