Sanjeet Ram @ Sanjeet Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.10350 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-2 Year-2024 Thana- RISIYAP District- Aurangabad ====================================================== 1.

SANJEET RAM @ SANJEET KUMAR S/O NAGDEO RAM R/O VILLAGE- NEURA SURAJMAL, P.S- RISIUP, DISTT.- AURANGABAD. 2.

MITHUN KUMAR @ MRITUNJAY KUMAR S/O ALAKHDEO RAM R/O VILLAGE- NEURA SURAJMAL, P.S- RISIUP, DISTT.- AURANGABAD.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Madan Kumar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 29-02-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent.

4. Allegation is of recovery of 20 litres of liquor near a canal.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners were not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large. It

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.10350 of 2024(2) dt.29-02-2024 2/2 is further submitted that petitioners came to be implicated at the instance of the Chawkidar with whom they are on an inimical term.

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

7. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their 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) each 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 Risiup P.S. Case No. 02 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T