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Patna High CourtCR. MISC./19858/2023bail granted

Sanjay Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2023-07-13Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.19858 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-321 Year-2022 Thana- FATEHPUR District- Gaya ====================================================== SANJAY KUMAR SON OF RAMASHISH RAVIDAS R/O VILLAGEJAGESHWAR TOLA, P.S.- DHANARUA, DISTRICT- PATNA ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Vishwa Ranjan Choudhary, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Anil Kumar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 13-07-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 409 and 120(B)/34 of the Indian Penal Code as well as Sections 51 and 52 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2018. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of three cases.

Allegation is of recovery of 2 packets of liquor along with three cartons of beer from village Dundu. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits 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 secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is further submitted that the petitioner

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.19858 of 2023(3) dt.13-07-2023 2/2 because of his antecedent was implicated in the case in order to save the real culprits.

Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

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.15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Fatehpur P.S. Case No. 321 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T