Dharmendra Singh @ Piyoosh Ranjan Singh @ Piyush Ranjhan Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.17149 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-314 Year-2023 Thana- YADOPUR District- Gopalganj ====================================================== Dharmendra Singh @ Piyoosh Ranjan Singh @ Piyush Ranjhan Singh, S/ONandlal Singh R/O- Village- Noniya Patti, P.S.- Tarya Sujan, Dist.- Kushinagar (Uttar Pradesh) ... ... Petitioner/S

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Pandey No For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr/s. Sucheta Yadav ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 18-03-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and 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 Excise Act, 2018.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 993.96 litres of liquor from a boat.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits 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 boat and he came to be implicated based on secret information, which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17149 of 2024(2) dt.18-03-2024 2/2 next submitted that it appears that the police in order to save the real culprit falsely implicated the petitioner based on secret information, when admittedly petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the 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 Additional District & Sessions JudgeII- cum- Special Excise Court No.1, Gopalganj in connection with Jadopur (Yadopur) P. S. Case No.314 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) vikash/- U T