Patna High CourtCR. MISC./12023/2024bail granted

Chhotu Yadav @ Chhotu Kumar Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

2024-03-04Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.12023 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-492 Year-2023 Thana- AKBARPUR District- Nawada ====================================================== Chhotu Yadav @ Chhotu Kumar Yadav S/O Aklu Yadav R/O VillageLohsinghna, Ps.- Akbarpur, Dist.- Nawada. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sheo Kumar Prasad, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Dashrath Mehta, APP.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 04-03-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Akbarpur P.S. Case No.492 of 2023, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has four criminal antecedents and allegation is of recovery of 421 liters of illicit country made liquor from four motorcycles.

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 not the owner of the seized motorcycles and he came to be implicated in the case

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.12023 of 2024(2) dt.04-03-2024 2/2 at the instance of Chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is also submitted that the Chowkidar, with a view to save the real culprit, falsely implicated the petitioner.

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. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty 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 Akbarpur P.S. Case No. 492 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) annpurna/- U T