Rinku @ Gurmit Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.22763 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-256 Year-2022 Thana- DURGAWATI District- Kaimur (Bhabua) ====================================================== Rinku @ Gurmit Singh S/O Tasveer Singh Resident Of Village- House No.- 13 A, Kuaon Khera, P.S.- Bilaspur, District- Rampur (U.P.). ... ... Petitioner/S

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Rajani Kant Pandey For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Md. Shakir Ahmad ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 15-05-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Excise Act, 2018.

The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 855.360 litre of liquor from a truck. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of co-accused Kasim Ali, which does not have any evidentiary value. Further, petitioner is not the owner of the truck and learned counsel at

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.22763 of 2023(2) dt.15-05-2023 2/2 the cost of repetition submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

Learned A.P.P. opposes the bail application.

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, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs. 1,000/- (Rupees One Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.D.J.-VII-cum-Special Judge Excise, Kaimur at Bhabua in connection with Durgawati P. S. Case No.256 of 2022, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T