Patna High CourtCR. MISC./13752/2024bail granted

Pappu Singh @ Ratnesh Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar

2024-03-07Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13752 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-351 Year-2019 Thana- BIHIA District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Pappu Singh @ Ratnesh Kumar Singh, S/O Raj Narayan Singh R/O VillageJhaua, Ps.- Bihiya, Dist.- Bhojpur At Ara. ... ... Petitioner/S

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Shubham Sourav For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Shailendra Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 07-03-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Excise Act.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 7257.6 litres of liquor from a truck.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner or the driver of the seized truck. It is further submitted that he came to be implicated at the instance of Chaukidar. It is next submitted that it appears that the Chaudkidar, in order to save

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13752 of 2024(2) dt.07-03-2024 2/2 the real culprit, falsely implicated the petitioner, when admittedly petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the bail application.

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 Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Excise Judge-1, Bhojpur, Ara in connection with Bihiya P. S. Case No.351 of 2019, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T