Patna High CourtCR. MISC./12700/2024bail granted

Rahul Kumar @ Rahul @ Ramu Gupta @ Ramu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2024-03-05Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.12700 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-684 Year-2023 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Lakhisarai ====================================================== Rahul Kumar @ Rahul @ Ramu Gupta @ Ramu Kumar Son of Om Saw @ Om Prakash Saw R/o Naya Bazar, P.s. and Distt. - Lakhisarai ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Rajnish Chandra, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Jagdhar Prasad, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 05-03-2024 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the 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 Prohibition & Excise (Amendment) Act, 2018.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of three cases and allegation is of recovery of 36.300 litres of liquor from the shop of Bablu Kumar.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be implicated based on confessional

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.12700 of 2024(2) dt.05-03-2024 2/2 statement of Bablu Kumar in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value.

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. 15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand) 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 Lakhisarai Excise P.S. Case No. 684C-2 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) sadique/- U T