Patna High CourtCR. MISC./13173/2024bail granted

Raushan Thakur @ Raushan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2024-03-06Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13173 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-70 Year-2023 Thana- MORO District- Darbhanga ====================================================== Raushan Thakur @ Raushan Kumar S/o Late Raja Thakur @ Rajesh Kumar Thakur R/o vill - Khaparpura, ward no. 17, P.S - Moro, Dist.- Darbhanga ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Saurav Anand, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Aditya Narayan Singh.1, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 06-03-2024

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 Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2018.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of two cases.

4. Allegation is of recovery of 165.780 litres of liquor from the house of Subhita Devi.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession. It is further submitted that even the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be implicated based on the confessional statement of apprehended accused in police

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13173 of 2024(2) dt.06-03-2024 2/2 custody which does not have any evidentiary value in the eye of law.

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

7. 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 court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Moro P.S. Case No. 70 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T