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Patna High CourtCR. MISC./14654/2024disposed

Sanjay Kumar Singh @ Sanjay Singh v. The State Of Bihar

2024-03-11Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.14654 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-525 Year-2022 Thana- JAYNAGAR District- Madhubani ====================================================== Sanjay Kumar Singh @ Sanjay Singh Son of Ganesh Singh Resident of Village- Thengha, P.S.- Khajauli, District- Madhubani. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Gagan Deo Yadav Mr. Ravi Prakash Mr. Rajesh Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Gauri Shankar Gupta ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 11-03-2024

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 Sections 272, 273, 34 of the I.P.C. & Sections 30(a), 41, 44 of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2022.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 10.5 litres of liquor from a motorcycle. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he is not owner of the seized vehicle and he came to be implicated based on statement of co-accused in police custody, which does

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.14654 of 2024(2) dt.11-03-2024 2/2 not have any evidentiary value, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.

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

5. 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.500/- (Rupees five hundred) 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 Jaynagar P.S. Case No.525/2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T