Jitendra Yadav v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.23457 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-33 Year-2025 Thana- INDRAPURI District- Rohtas ====================================================== Jitendra Yadav Son of Ral Lal Yadav Resident of Village - Tilauthu, P.S. - Tilauthu, District - Rohtas ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Rajesh Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Nityanand ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 30-04-2025
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 is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 60 liters of liquor from a motorcycle.
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 came to be implicated based on the fact that he is owner of the seized vehicle. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing an occurrence and thus would
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.23457 of 2025(2) dt.30-04-2025 2/3 create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated, it is also submitted that petitioner was completely unaware that his friend would misuse the vehicle in the manner as alleged, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.
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. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Indrapuri P.S. Case No. 33 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 even one case then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.23457 of 2025(2) dt.30-04-2025 3/3 antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail shall not be confirmed, but in the event if it is found that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail bonds shall be confirmed forthwith.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T