Patna High CourtCR. MISC./14365/2017bail granted

Dip Narayan Dangi v. The Union Of India Through Narcotic Drug Bureau And ANR

2017-06-20Mr. Justice Birendra Kumar2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.14365 of 2017 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -172 Year- 2016 Thana -BARACHATTI District- GAYA ======================================================

1. Dip Narayan Dangi S/o Yugal Dangi, R/o Village-Dhondhi, P.s. Mayarhand, District-Chatra (Jharkhand) .... Petitioner

Versus

1. The Union of India Through Narcotic Drug Bureau

2. The State of Bihar .... Opposite Parties ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner : Mr. Satish Kumar Sinha, Adv. For the State : Mr. Umanath Mishra, APP 234 For the Union of India : Mr. S.D. Sanjay, ASG ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE BIRENDRA KUMAR ORAL ORDER 20-06-2017 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the State.

This is a petition for grant of regular bail for offence under Sections 17 and 18 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.

The petitioner was driver of the motorcycle on which co-accused, Anil Kumar Dangi, was also sitting along with a bag containing about three kilogram of liquid substance suspected to be extract of opium.

Submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that Anil Kumar Dangi has already been granted regular in Cr. Misc. No. 14354 of 2017 on 15.05.2017 because no forensic report was available to establish that the recovered article was really opium. More over, Anil Kumar Dangi was in custody since about one year. The petitioner is also in custody since the same period.

Considering the aforesaid fact, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.20,000/- (rupees twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14365 of 2017 (3) dt.20-06-2017 2/2 amount each in connection with N.D.P.S. Case No. 11 of 2016 (arising out of Barachatti P.S. Case No. 172 of 2016) to the satisfaction of the Special Judge, Gaya, or successor Court. (Birendra Kumar, J) SA/- U √ T √