Om Prakash Singh Badal v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.17062 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-336 Year-2023 Thana- TARAIYA District- Saran ====================================================== Om Prakash Singh Badal Son Of Baleshwar Singh Prasad Resident Of Mohallah - B.H. Colony, Near Krishna Niketan, Jakariyapur Jhali, Sampatchak, P.S. - Ramkrishna Nagar, District - Patna, Bihar ... ... Petitioner/s

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Gaurav Prakash For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Sucheta Yadav ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 18-03-2024 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 offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 282.750 litres of liquor from a pick-up van. 4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the 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 pick-up van. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17062 of 2024(2) dt.18-03-2024 2/2 vehicle for committing an occurrence and thus would create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated, it is further submitted that petitioner was completely unaware that Bhola Kumar would misuse the vehicle in the manner as alleged, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedents.

5.

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

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 trial court 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 Taraiya P.S. Case No. 336 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) SUMIT/- U T