Patna High CourtCR. MISC./23416/2024bail granted

Manjay Rai @Manjay Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2024-04-02Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.23416 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-26 Year-2021 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Vaishali ====================================================== Manjay Rai @ Manjay Kumar SON OF AMIR RAY Resident of VillagePurantand, P.S.- Lalganj, District- Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Pranav Kumar, Advocate Mr. Rajeev Ranjan No. II, Advocate Mrs. Kumari Seema Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Manoj Kumar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 02-04-2024

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 Sections 30(a), 32(2) and 41(1) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

4. Allegation is of recovery of 250 litres of liquor from a car.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is neither the owner nor the driver of the seized vehicle and he came to be implicated based on the confessional statement of Ranjeet

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.23416 of 2024(2) dt.02-04-2024 2/2 Kumar in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value in the eye of law, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.

6. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

7. 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 from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with C2A Case No. 26 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438

(2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T