Vishal Manjhi @ Vishal Kumar Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.10628 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-423 Year-2023 Thana- BARAULI District- Gopalganj ====================================================== Vishal Manjhi @ Vishal Kumar Manjhi Son of Paras Manjhi Resident of Village- Kalha, P.S. Barauli, District- Gopalganj, Bihar-841405 ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Akshay Ashish, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Md. Anzarul Haque Sahara, APP ====================================================== 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) 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 25 litres of liquor from a place near a canal. 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 even alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large and does not belong to the petitioner. It is next submitted that he came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar with whom

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.10628 of 2024(2) dt.29-02-2024 2/2 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 Barauli P.S. Case No. 423 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438

(2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) SUMIT/- U T