Mohit Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.14571 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-137 Year-2023 Thana- GOPALPUR District- Gopalganj ====================================================== MOHIT KUMAR S/O BIRENDRA PRASAD R/O PURAB MOHALLA MIRGANJ, P.S- MIRGANJ, DISTT.- GOPALGANJ.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Pritish Ranjan, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Rajesh Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 11-03-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as 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 Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2018.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 19.155 liters of liquor from a scooty.

4. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated based on the fact that he is owner of the scooty. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing an occurrence and thus would create evidence against himself and hence

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.14571 of 2024(2) dt.11-03-2024 2/2 would get implicated. It is also submitted that petitioner was completely unaware that Ravi would misused the scooty in the manner as alleged who was also apprehended from the spot.

5. The learned APP for the State opposes the anticipatory 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 Additional District and Sessions Judge, IV-cum-Exclusive Special Excise Court No.II, Gopalganj in connection with Gopalpur P.S. Case No.137 of 2023, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Prakash Narayan U T