Ashish Kumar @ Ashish Sardar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.25157 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-359 Year-2023 Thana- RAGHOPUR District- Supaul ====================================================== Ashish Kumar @ Ashish Sardar S/o Rajesh Sardar R/o Village - Gonha, Ward No. 01, P.S. - Triveniganj, Dist. - Supaul ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Kuldeep Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Shailendra Kumar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 04-04-2024

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 the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2018.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of three cases.

4. Allegation is of recovery of 51 litres of liquor from a motorcycle.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of the motorcycle and petitioner came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is further submitted that once an accused is implicated in a case

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.25157 of 2024(2) dt.04-04-2024 2/2 of liquor the police start implicating him in a mechanical manner and at times in order to save the real culprits.

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

7. 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 Raghopur P.S. Case No. 359 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

8. However, the learned trial court, before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner, shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more than three cases in that event the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T