Patna High CourtCR. MISC./16749/2022bail granted

Sajjan Rai @ Sanjan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2022-07-22Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.16749 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-377 Year-2021 Thana- KUDHNI District- Muzaffarpur ====================================================== SAJJAN RAI @ SANJAN KUMAR SON OF RAM PRAVESH RAI R/O VILLAGE- BAAGHI GOPINATHPUR, P.S.- MANIYARI, DISTRICTMUZAFFARPUR ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr .Nand Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 22-07-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State through virtual Court proceedings. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 542.670 litre of liquor from a Bolero pickup van. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, it is next submitted that petitioner is neither the owner nor the driver of the vehicle and his name transpired by the confessional

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.16749 of 2022(2) dt.22-07-2022 2/2 statement co-accused Sanjeet Kumar which has no evidentiary value.

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

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) each 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 Kudhani P.S. Case No. 377 of 2021 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi/Shivam/- U T