Raja Singh @ Raja Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.16215 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-371 Year-2023 Thana- BAIRIYA District- West Champaran ====================================================== Raja Singh @ Raja Kumar Son of Sri Bipin Singh @ Bipin Kumar Resident of Village- Laukariya, P.S.- Bairiya, District- West Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s
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The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Sharad Kumar Verma For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Rajesh Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 13-03-2024
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 414 I.P.C. & Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 22.665 litres of liquor from a bag kept on the 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 the owner of the seized motorcycle and he came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term.
4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.16215 of 2024(2) dt.13-03-2024 2/2 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 Bairiya P.S. Case No.371/2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T