Sanjeev Kumar @ Mangla @ Mangal Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.19000 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-26 Year-2024 Thana- BACHHWARA District- Begusarai ====================================================== SANJEEV KUMAR @ MANGLA @ MANGAL SINGH Son of Ashok Singh Resident of Village-Pasopur, Police Station-Bhagwanpur, DistrictBegusarai, at present R/V-Daniyalpur, P.S.-Teghara, Dist.-Begusarai. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Ms. Gulnar Begum, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 21-03-2024

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 Sections 30(a), 32(2) and 41 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.

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

4. Allegation is of recovery of 2196 litres of liquor from a truck.

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 or driver of the seized truck. It is further submitted that petitioner came to be implicated based on the fact that he is owner of mobile no. 6206671468. It is next submitted that it absolutely does not stand to reason that on what basis it is being alleged that holder of the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.19000 of 2024(2) dt.21-03-2024 2/2 aforesaid mobile number is involved in the occurrence. It is also submitted that since petitioner has antecedent of seven cases and it is a known fact that the mobile belongs to the petitioner as such the police in order to save the real culprits falsely implicated the petitioner in the instant case.

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.35,000/- (Rupees Thirty-five 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 Bachhawara P.S. Case No. 26 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T