Ranjeet Kumar @ Ranjit Kumar @ Ranjit Bhai v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.17813 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-35 Year-2023 Thana- KALYANPUR District- East Champaran ====================================================== Ranjeet Kumar @ Ranjit Kumar @ Ranjit Bhai Son Of Kedar Prasad Sah R/O Village- Khatri Tola, P.S.- Lalganj, District- Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Anand Kishore Choudhary, 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), 32(1)(2), 36 and 41(1)(2) 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 1023.525 litres of liquor from a truck and two pickup van.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, it is next submitted that petitioner is neither the owner nor the driver of the alleged vehicle and he came to be implicated based on the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17813 of 2023(2) dt.10-05-2023 2/2 confessional statement of co-accused in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value.

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. 1,000/- (Rupees One 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 Kalyanpur P.S. Case No. 35 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi-II U T