Manoj Laheri @ Amit Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.19255 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-57 Year-2025 Thana- BEGUSARAI TOWN District- Begusarai ====================================================== Manoj Laheri @ Amit Kumar S/O Chamaklal Laheri @ Chamak Lal Sah R/O Ward No. 32, Bhagwati Asthan, Rajendra Nagar, Gachhi Tola, P.S- Town, District- Begusarai.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mrs. Namita Sharma Mr. Anshu Dhar Sharma For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Shantanu Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 23-04-2025

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) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of three cases under the excise act and allegation is of recovery of 7.500 liters of liquor from bag of Jitendra who was also apprehended.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from Jitendra and based on confessional statement

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.19255 of 2025(2) dt.23-04-2025 2/3 of Jitendra, he came to be implicated in the instant case when confessional statement before police does not have any evidentiary value. It is also submitted that once an accused is implicated in a case relating to excise, the police starts implicating mechanically without holding a proper investigation.

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 Provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand) 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 Town P.S. Case No. 57 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. It is made clear that the learned Trial Court after accepting the provisional anticipatory bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.19255 of 2025(2) dt.23-04-2025 3/3 more than three cases then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail shall not be confirmed, but in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of three cases only in that event the provisional anticipatory bail bonds shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T