Hukum Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.15624 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-27 Year-2023 Thana- JAGDISHPUR District- Bhojpur ====================================================== 1.

HUKUM SINGH S/O Baiju Singh RESIDENT OF VILLAGE- UGNA, P.SJAGDISHPUR DISTT- BHOJPUR 2.

SUSHIL SINGH S/O RAM CHANDAR SINGH RESIDENT OF VILLAGE- UGNA, P.S- JAGDISHPUR DISTT- BHOJPUR 3.

RINTU CHAUDHARY S/O PANCHU CHAUDHARY RESIDENT OF VILLAGE- UGNA, P.S- JAGDISHPUR DISTT- BHOJPUR ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Bishweshwar Ram ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 03-05-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a)(d) of the Bihar Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 90 liters of liquor from bank of a river. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners were not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and as such

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.15624 of 2023(2) dt.03-05-2023 2/2 nothing was recovered from their conscious possession, it is next submitted that even recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large and they came to be implicated by the local Chowkidar with whom they are on an inimical term. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.

Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their 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. 1,000/- (Rupees One Thousand) each 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 Jagdishpur P.S. Case No. 27 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) HarshPandey/- U T