Ved Prakash Ray @ Ved Prakash @ Sahil Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.17271 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-833 Year-2021 Thana- HAJIPUR SADAR District- Vaishali ====================================================== VED PRAKASH RAY @ VED PRAKASH @ SAHIL KUMAR S/o Vinay Ray Resident of Village - Lal Pokhar Dighi, P.S. - Hajipur Sadar, DistrictVaishali. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Ms. Rita Verma, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 29-07-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State through the virtual Court proceedings. Let the defect(s), if any, be removed within a period of four weeks.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 414 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2018.

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

Allegation is of recovery of 746.64 litres of liquor from a pick-up van.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession. It is next submitted that

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17271 of 2022(2) dt.29-07-2022 2/2 even the vehicle does not belong to the petitioner nor he is the driver of the vehicle. It is further submitted that the police falsely implicated the petitioner through the Chawkidar because of his antecedents. Learned counsel next submits that from perusal of para 3 of the anticipatory bail application, it would manifest that petitioner in the same manner has been implicated in seven cases of excise matter.

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.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty 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 Hajipur Sadar P.S. Case No. 833 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T