Ranjan Chaudhary v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.12018 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-44 Year-2021 Thana- GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL COMP. District- Siwan ====================================================== RANJAN CHAUDHARY SON OF JHINGUR CHAUDHARY R/O VILLAGE- MAHPUR TOLA (AHIR TOLA), P.S.- SARAI O.P. (SIWAN), DISTRICT- SIWAN ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Bijay Prakash Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms.Pronoti Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 15-07-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State through virtual Court proceedings. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that he received information that three persons are selling liquor at Mahpur village, accordingly the informant reached at the place of occurrence and on seeing the force, the accused fled from the place of occurrence and thereafter upon search it is alleged that 27.200 litres of liquor was recovered from the house of one Chhotu Sah.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.12018 of 2022(2) dt.15-07-2022 2/2 petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and the alleged recovery is from the own house of Chhotu Sah. It is next submitted that the informant falsely implicated the petitioner by alleging that his name was disclosed by nearby people but the F.I.R. does not disclose name of the persons who disclosed the name of the petitioner.

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

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. 2,000/- (Rupees Two 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 Excise Case No. 44 of 2021 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi/- U T