Patna High CourtCR. MISC./15267/2024bail granted

Chhotu Singh @ Vikash Ranjan Singh v. The State Of Bihar

2024-03-12Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.15267 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-600 Year-2023 Thana- BHORE District- Gopalganj ====================================================== CHHOTU SINGH @ VIKASH RANJAN SINGH S/O LATE UMESH SINGH R/O VILLAGE- BHORE DAKSHIN TOLA, P.S- BHORE, DISTT.- GOPALGANJ.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Setu Prateek For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Parmanand Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 12-03-2024

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 offences punishable under Sections 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 45 liters of liquor from a motorcycle and 14.40 liters of liquor from a plastic gunny bag thrown by accused persons who fled.

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 even the alleged

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.15267 of 2024(2) dt.12-03-2024 2/2 recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and he is not the owner of the motorcycle and he came to be implicated based on the confessional statement of co-accused in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.

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. 1,000/- (Rupees One 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 Bhore P.S. Case No. 600 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T