Patna High CourtCR. MISC./17784/2024bail granted

Banti @ Pradip Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2024-03-19Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.17784 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-143 Year-2023 Thana- AAYAR District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Banti @ Pradip Kumar Son of Bhikhari Yadav @ Bhikhari Singh Resident of Village- Chirapur, Police Station- Ayer, District- Bhojpur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Bisheshwar Ram ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 19-03-2024

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 (Amendment) Act, 2018.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of two cases and allegation is of recovery of 160 litres of liquor from a field. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large and does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of apprehended coaccused in police custody which does not have any evidentiary

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17784 of 2024(2) dt.19-03-2024 2/2 value.

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.10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) 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 Ayer P.S. Case No.143/2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T