Pawan Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.50586 of 2018 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -148 Year- 2018 Thana -KAUAKOL District- NAWADA ====================================================== Pawan Singh, S/o. Nawal Kishore Singh, R/o. Village- & P.S. Rupau, District- Nawada.

.... .... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Vibhuti Ranjan Sonvadra For the Opposite Party/s : Smt. Madhuri Lata ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRAKASH CHANDRA JAISWAL ORAL ORDER 16-08-2018 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner seeks bail in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

44 litres of country made liquor is said to have been recovered from possession of petitioner near the open land of Vidya Singh.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that no incriminating article has been recovered from the conscious physical possession of the petitioner. He has no concern with the seized liquor. He has been falsely implicated in this case by the police merely on suspicion while he was passing through the place of occurrence at the time of occurrence. The real culprit

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.50586 of 2018 (2) dt.16-08-2018 2/2 managed to escape dumping the aforesaid liquor there seeing the police personnel. The seizure list does not bear the signature of the petitioner. He has no criminal antecedent. He has been languishing in custody since 13.07.2018.

Considering the facts aforesaid, the above named petitioner is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.D.J.-II cum Special Judge, Nawada in connection with Kauakole (Rupau) P.S. Case No. 148 of 2018.

(Prakash Chandra Jaiswal, J) Kr. Uday/- U T