Rajan Jha @ Rajan Kumar Jha v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.12233 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-144 Year-2023 Thana- MUSRIGHRARI District- Samastipur ====================================================== Rajan Jha @ Rajan Kumar Jha S/O Virendra Jha RESIDENT OF WARD NO 13, HARPUR AILOTH PS.- MUSHRIGHARARI DISTRICTSAMASTIPUR ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Rabindra Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Raj Ballabh Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 04-03-2024 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, and 36 of the Bihar Excise Act.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of three cases and allegation is of recovery of 3519.360 litres of liquor from a truck, bolero vehicle and a pickup van.

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 he is neither the owner nor the driver of any of the seized vehicles. It is further

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.12233 of 2024(2) dt.04-03-2024 2/2 submitted that he came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is next submitted that it appears that Police, in order to save the real culprit, falsely implicated the petitioner because of his antecedents.

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. 15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen 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 Mushrigharari P.S. Case No. 144 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) SUMIT/- U T