Patna High CourtCR. MISC./19436/2024bail granted

Sonu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2024-03-21Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.19436 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-66 Year-2023 Thana- PATEPUR District- Vaishali ====================================================== Sonu Kumar Son of Late Abdesh Rai @ Subodh Rai Resident of VillageSaidpur Dumra, p.S.- Patepur, District - Vaishali. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ranjit Kumar Thakur For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms. Sangeeta Sharma ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 21-03-2024

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 offences punishable under Sections 30(a), 32(ii) and 41(i) 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 808.92 liters of liquor from a truck.

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 is neither the owner nor the driver of the seized truck and he came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone, when admittedly petitioner is a person

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.19436 of 2024(2) dt.21-03-2024 2/2 with clean antecedent.

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. 1,000/- (Rupees One 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 Patepur P.S. Case No. 66 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T