Manish Vargo @ Manish Bhargav @ Manish Kumar Bhargav v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.18816 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-1047 Year-2023 Thana- ARA NAGAR District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Manish Vargo @ Manish Bhargav @ Manish Kumar Bhargav Son of Munna Bhargav Resident of Mohalla- Tari Mohalla Green Medical Arrah , P.S.- Ara Town, District- Bhojpur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ajay Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Parmanand Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 20-03-2024

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 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 200 litres of liquor from a Magic vehicle. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated based on the fact that he is owner of the seized vehicle. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing an occurrence and thus would create evidence against himself and hence would get

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.18816 of 2024(2) dt.20-03-2024 2/2 implicated. It is thus submitted that the petitioner was completely unaware that his driver would misuse his vehicle in the manner as alleged 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 Ara Nagar P.S. Case No.1047/2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T