Ranjan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13161 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-44 Year-2023 Thana- BEN P.S. District- Nalanda ====================================================== Ranjan Kumar S/o Bijendra Prasad R/o Village- Pirodha (Modanganj), P.S. Ghosi, District- Jehanabad, Bihar ... ... Petitioner/s

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ankit Katriar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Ram Sevak Choudhary ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 18-03-2024

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 offence punishable under Sections 25(1-b)a, 26 and 35 of the Arms Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is not named in the F.I.R and the informant alleges that the Scorpio vehicle was intercepted and on checking, a rifle was found inside the vehicle and two persons were arrested, namely, Sanjeet Kumar and Manoj Kumar. It is next submitted that petitioner came to be implicated in the instant case based on the fact that he is owner of the Scorpio vehicle from which the rifle was recovered. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing an occurrence and thus would create

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13161 of 2024(2) dt.18-03-2024 2/2 evidence against himself and hence would get implicated. It is further submitted that the petitioner was completely unaware that his driver along with Manoj Kumar would misuse the vehicle in the manner as alleged, who were also apprehended from the spot. It is submitted at the cost of repetition that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

5. 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 trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Ben P.S. Case No.44/2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T