Chanchal Kumar @ Paplu Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.17981 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-46 Year-2021 Thana- GAYA KOTWALI District- Gaya ====================================================== CHANCHAL KUMAR @ PAPLU SINGH S/o Ishwari Singh R/o Oraina, P.S. - Muffasil, Distt - Nawada.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shashi Bhushan Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Rajiv Nayan, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 23-09-2022 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 Sections 25(1-b)A, 26 and 35 of the Arms Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

The informant alleges that he got secret information about one Rehan Alam who was going to sell illegal weapons to Md. Sikandar Khan and reached the place of occurrence where two persons were apprehended. One was the seller and another was the purchaser, namely, Rehan Alam and from them various arms and ammunitions were recovered along with cash as detailed in the FIR. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17981 of 2022(2) dt.23-09-2022 2/2 is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is further submitted that petitioner is not named in the FIR and his name transpired in the confessional statement of co-accused which has no evidentiary value in the eye of law. Learned counsel at the cost of repetition submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner and submits that investigation is still in progress and the police may during the course of investigation connect the petitioner with the offence.

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 Kotwali P.S. Case No. 46 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T