Patna High CourtCR. MISC./7475/2024bail granted

Sumit Kumar Ranjan v. The State Of Bihar

2024-02-22Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.7475 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-240 Year-2023 Thana- BALIYA District- Begusarai ====================================================== SUMIT KUMAR RANJAN Son of Lal Babu Roy Resident of VillageAdharpur Chak Nijamat, Police Station-Muffasil, District-Samastipur. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Arun Kumar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 22-02-2024

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 290 and 129(B) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 30(a), 32 and 41(i)(ii) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of one case.

4. Allegation is of recovery of 2432.520 litres of liquor from the pick-up van.

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 is not the owner or the driver of the seized vehicle. It is further submitted that petitioner came to be implicated based on the confessional

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.7475 of 2024(2) dt.22-02-2024 2/2 statement of co-accused Gautam Kumar Mishra in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value in the eye of law.

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.5,000/- (Rupees Five Thousand) 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 Ballia P.S. Case No. 240 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T