Rajesh Kumar @ Rajesh Mandal v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.15866 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-329 Year-2021 Thana- GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL COMP. District- Madhepura ====================================================== RAJESH KUMAR @ RAJESH MANDAL Son of Sukhdeo Mandal Resident of Village - Sukhasan Chakala Ward No.-3, P.S.- Madhepura, District - Madhepura.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 16-08-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

Learned counsel for the petitioner undertakes to remove the defects within four weeks of resumption of normal court proceedings. In the eventuality of non-removal of defects within undertaken period, office will place the matter before the Bench. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with a case registered for the offence punishable u/s 30(A) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018.

Altogether 65.25 liters of foreign liquor is said to have been recovered from a cow shed. The allegation against the petitioner is that after seeing the police he alongwith other coaccused persons fled away from the spot.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.15866 of 2022(3) dt.16-08-2022 2/3 Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is quite innocent and has not committed any offence as alleged in the FIR. He has been falsely implicated in this case due to ulterior motive. His name transpired in the case on the basis of suspicion. Petitioner has neither been apprehended on the spot nor any incriminating article has been recovered from his conscious physical possession. Petitioner has no concern either with the seized liquor or any trade of liquor. The alleged place of occurrence from where the recovery has been made is an open place and does not belongs to the petitioner. Petitioner has one criminal antecedent of similar nature, as also mentioned in para-3 of this application.

Petitioner is agreed to deposit a sum of Rs.25,000.00/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) in the Juvenile Justice Fund, Bihar bearing Account No.35094613009, IFSC SBIN0000153, State Bank of India, Patna Secretariat Sinchai Bhawan Branch, Patna.

Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioner named above, in the event of his arrest/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.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) with two

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.15866 of 2022(3) dt.16-08-2022 3/3 sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court below, where the case is pending/Successor court, in connection with Madhepura Excise Case No.329 of 2021, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C, as also the following conditions: (1) One of the bailors will be a close relative of the petitioner, who will give an affidavit giving genealogy as to how he is related with petitioner. He will also undertake to inform the Court if there is any change in the address of petitioner. (2) The bailor shall also state on affidavit that he will inform the Court concerned if the petitioner is implicated in any other case of similar nature and thereafter the Court below will be at liberty to initiate proceeding for cancellation of anticipatory bail on the ground of misuse.

The bail bond of the petitioner shall be accepted by the learned Court below on showing receipt of deposit of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) in the Juvenile Justice Fund.

(Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) shikha/- U T