Patna High CourtCR. MISC./10034/2024bail granted

Vikash Kumar @ Basuki Nath Kumar @ Baskit @ Baski Nath v. The State Of Bihar

2024-02-28Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.10034 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-696 Year-2023 Thana- PATNA CITY CHOWK District- Patna ====================================================== Vikash Kumar @ Basuki Nath Kumar @ Baskit @ Baski Nath son of Late Rama Shankar Prasad @ Late Rama Shankar Ray R/o- Kachauri Gali Behind Choti Mandir Ps- Chowk Dist- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Rajeev Kumar Ambastha For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Nand Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 28-02-2024

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 has antecedent of two cases and allegation is of recovery of 32.4 liters of liquor from the possession of Manjit Singh and Vicky Kumar.

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. It is next submitted that he came to be implicated based on the confessional

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.10034 of 2024(2) dt.28-02-2024 2/2 statement of co-accused 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. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten 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 Chowk P.S. Case No. 696 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T