Amod Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.21788 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-155 Year-2023 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Vaishali ====================================================== Amod Kumar S/o Rampukar Sah R/o village Keshopur Khanjaha Chak @ Saidpur, PS - Lalganj District Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mrs. Bela Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Nand Kumar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 29-03-2024 1.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a), 32(1) (3), 41(1)(2) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 18 liters of foreign liquor from the Auto. 4.

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 petitioner being the owner of the seized Auto came to be implicated in a mechanical manner. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing an

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.21788 of 2024(2) dt.29-03-2024 2/2 occurrence and thus would create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated. It is thus submitted that the petitioner was completely unaware that his driver Dharmendra Singh would misuse his vehicle in the manner as alleged and he was also arrested from the spot alongwith Abhimanu Kumar, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent. 5.

Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

6.

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. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Vaishali Excise P.S. Case No. 155 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) mdrashid/- U T