Kiran Bedi Jha v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.17820 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-821 Year-2022 Thana- PATLIPUTRA District- Patna ====================================================== Kiran Bedi Jha S/O- Vivekanand Jha Ro Village -Dahiyar Ranna , Po -Hathauri Op Shivaji Nagar, District -Samastipur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Dilip Kumar No. 1, 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 Sections 30(a) and 41(i) 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 100 ml of liquor from an Alto car. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated being owner of the alleged vehicle. Learned counsel next submits that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing a crime and thus would get himself implicated, it

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17820 of 2023(2) dt.10-05-2023 2/2 is next submitted that petitioner had lent his car to a friend and thus was not aware that the vehicle would be misused in the manner as alleged 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 Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Patliputra P.S. Case No. 821 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi-II U T