Ranjeet Kumar Singh @ Ranjeet Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.23037 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-26 Year-2024 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Vaishali ====================================================== Ranjeet Kumar Singh @ Ranjeet Singh SON OF LATE SURENDRA SINGH RESIDENT OF VILLAGE- CHHATWARA KHASPATTI, PS- MAHUA, DIST- VAISHALI ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Arbind Kumar Pandey (App84) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 01-04-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

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

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of four cases and allegation is of recovery of 61.560 liters of liquor from the ditch behind the house of the petitioner.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large and does not belong to the petitioner. It is further submitted that petitioner came to be implicated at the instance of local people. It is further submitted that in majority of the cases

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.23037 of 2024(2) dt.01-04-2024 2/2 police is implicating accused persons at the instance of Chowkidar or local people. It is also submitted that if the Chowkidar was aware of the involvement of the petitioner in the occurrence then why he did not inform the police prior to institution of the instant FIR which casts an aspersion on the case of the prosecution.

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. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Mahua Excise P.S. Case No. 26 of 2024 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T