Patna High CourtCR. MISC./14570/2024disposed

Ranjan Kumar @ Ranjan Kumar Paswan v. The State Of Bihar

2024-03-11Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.14570 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-59 Year-2023 Thana- MALI District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Ranjan Kumar @ Ranjan Kumar Paswan S/o Vijay Paswan R/o VILLAGE - SHEKHPURA, P.S. - KUTUMBA, DISTRICT - AURANGABAD ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Bhaskar Shankar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms.Pronoti Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 11-03-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 110.700 liters of liquor from an auto.

4. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of the seized vehicle and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Sonu in police custody, which does not have any evidentiary value, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.

5. The learned APP for the State opposes the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.14570 of 2024(2) dt.11-03-2024 2/2 anticipatory bail application.

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 Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Special Judge, Excise,II, Aurangabad in connection with Mali P.S. Case No.59 of 2023, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Prakash Narayan U T