Patna High CourtCR. MISC./10386/2024bail granted

Ravi Chaudhary @ Ravi Kumar Chaudhari v. The State Of Bihar

2024-02-29Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.10386 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-156 Year-2019 Thana- ARWAL District- Jehanabad ====================================================== Ravi Chaudhary @ Ravi Kumar Chaudhari S/o Banke Chaudhari R/o vill - Madan Singh Ka Tola, P.S. - Arwal, Distt. - Arwal ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Shailendra Kumar Singh, A.P.P.

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

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 30(a) and 37(c) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of two cases.

4. Allegation is of recovery of 6 litres of liquor from a room of Jalandhar Manjhi and 8.8 litres of liquor behind the house of the petitioner.

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 even the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be implicated merely for the reason that the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.10386 of 2024(2) dt.29-02-2024 2/2 alleged recovery of 8.8 litres of liquor is from a place which is adjacent to the house of the petitioner.

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.10,000/- (Rupees Ten 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 Arwal P.S. Case No. 156 of 2019, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T