Sampat Pandit v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.24336 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-22 Year-2024 Thana- ISUAPUR District- Saran ====================================================== Sampat Pandit S/O Lakhan Pandit R/O Village- Nipaniya, Police StationIsuapur, Distt.- Saran (CHAPRA). ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Sachida Nand Rai For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Akbar Ali ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 03-04-2024 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 Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 427.680 litres of liquor from dalan of the petitioner. 4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and after the amendment in the Excise Act in the year 2018, the concept of deemed possession and presumed offender has been done away with. It is next submitted that dalan is a place outside the house

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.24336 of 2024(2) dt.03-04-2024 2/3 of the petitioner and is accessible to public at large. It is next submitted that he came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is also submitted that in majority of the cases, the police, in a mechanical manner, is implicating the innocent people through Chowkidar or local people. It is further submitted that it does not stand to reason that if 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 further casts 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. 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 Isuapur P.S. Case No. 22 of 2024 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.24336 of 2024(2) dt.03-04-2024 3/3 7.

It is made clear that the learned trial court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that the petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) SUMIT/- U T