Ramesh Manjhi @ Ramesh Kumar @ Santosh Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.19408 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-197 Year-2021 Thana- GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL COMP. District- Saran ====================================================== Ramesh Manjhi @ Ramesh Kumar @ Santosh Kumar S/o Rajendra Manjhi R/o Village Isuapur, (Ward No.6), P.S. Isuapur, District Saran at Chapra. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar.

... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Dheeraj Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms. Shaheen Begum ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 05-08-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State through virtual court proceedings. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

47 litres of illicit liquor has been recovered from an open place where petitioner and the co-accused were selling liquor. The petitioner is said to have fled away from the place of occurrence after seeing the police. The apprehended person disclosed the name of the petitioner.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the present case. It is further submitted that there is no recovery

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.19408 of 2022(2) dt.05-08-2022 2/3 from the conscious possession of the petitioner and he has got no criminal antecedent as stated in paragraph-3 of the bail application.

Petitioner is ready to deposit a sum of Rs.20,000/- (rupees twenty thousand) in Bihar Kishore Nyay Nidhi, Apna Ghar, Near Lalit Bhawan, Bailey Road, Patna bearing Saving Bank Account No.35094613009, State Bank of India, Branch Name Patna Secretariat Sinchai Bhawan, Branch Code-153, IFSC Code-SBIN0000153.

Taking into consideration the fact aforesaid and the fact that there is no recovery from the conscious possession of the petitioner, let 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 enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (rupees twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned 1st Exclusive Special Judge, Excise, Saran at Chapra in connection with Excise Case No.197 of 2021, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as well as subject to the further conditions that:

(i) One of the bailors will be own blood relative of the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.19408 of 2022(2) dt.05-08-2022 3/3 petitioner, preferably, father, mother, brother, sister and/or his wife.

(ii) The petitioner shall not indulge himself in any similar offence till conclusion of the trial. (Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) Sanjay/- U T