Ranjan Kumar @ Ranjan Rai v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.17536 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-213 Year-2022 Thana- NAYAGAON District- Saran ====================================================== RANJAN KUMAR @ RANJAN RAI S/O- DHRUP RAI VillageChhitupakar Bind Toli P.S- Nayagaon Dist- Saran ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Ahmad Ali, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 10-05-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
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 50 liters of liquor from a bush.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, it is next submitted that even the alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated based on disclosure made by the local persons, but then the F.I.R. does
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17536 of 2023(2) dt.10-05-2023 2/2 not disclose the name of any local persons which cast aspersion on the veracity of the prosecution's case, when admittedly the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent. 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 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) 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 Nayagaon P.S. Case No. 213 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T