Patna High CourtCR. MISC./7947/2024bail granted

Pappu Prasad v. The State Of Bihar

2024-02-26Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.7947 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-382 Year-2023 Thana- SITAMARHI District- Sitamarhi ====================================================== PAPPU PRASAD S/O- VALESHWAR PRASAD R/O- VILLAGE- KUHARI, P.O- MANJHAULI, P.S.- FATEHPUR, DIST.- GAYA, BIHAR. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Utkarsh Bhushan, Adv.

Mr. Shyamal Krishna Sinha, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mrs. Asha Devi, APP ====================================================== 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 Narhat (Sitamarhi) P.S. Case No.382/2023 registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 45 litres of liquor from a motorcycle. It is next submitted 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 the fact that the seized motorcycle was registered in his name. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing an

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.7947 of 2024(2) dt.26-02-2024 2/2 occurrence and thus would create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated. It is next submitted that the petitioner was completely unaware that his friend would misuse his vehicle in the manner as alleged.

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 Exclusive Special Excise Judge-1st, Nawada in connection with Narhat (Sitamadhi) P.S. Case No.382/2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T