Patna High CourtCR. MISC./8434/2024bail granted

Prem Sahni v. The State Of Bihar

2024-02-26Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.8434 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-123 Year-2023 Thana- PURNAHYA District- Sheohar ====================================================== PREM SAHNI S/O- RAMCHANDRA SAHNI R/O- VILLAGE- BELWA NARKATIA, P.S.- PIPARAHI, DIST.- SHEOHAR.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Hans Lal Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Yogendra Kumar Singh ====================================================== 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 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 285 liters of liquor from a bush near bank of river, Adauri ghat.

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 and alleged recovery is also from a place which is accessible to public at large and the petitioner came to be implicated at the instance of local

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.8434 of 2024(2) dt.26-02-2024 2/2 Chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term.

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 Purnahiya P.S. Case No. 123 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T