Sadhu Yadav @ Dilip Prasad Yadav @ Dilip Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.34191 of 2021 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-461 Year-2020 Thana- RAJAOLI District- Nawada ====================================================== 1.

SADHU YADAV @ DILIP PRASAD YADAV @ DILIP YADAV S/O AAMI YADAV @ AMBIKA YADAV R/O VILLAGE-BARA, P.S.- RAJAULI, DISTRICT-NAWADA.

2.

KHIRU YADAV S/O KISHUN YADAV R/O VILLAGE-BARA, P.SRAJAULI, DISTRICT-NAWADA. 3.

LAKHAN PASWAN S/O BISHUNDHARI PASWAN R/O VILLAGEBARA, P.S-RAJAULI, DISTRICT-NAWADA. VILLAGE_BARA ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Sidhendra Narayan Singh For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. N. N. Tiwary, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR SINGH ORAL ORDER 10-09-2021 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the State through virtual mode.

Learned counsel for the petitioners is directed to remove the defect(s), as pointed out by the office, within a period of four weeks after restoration of normalcy. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in Rajauli P.S. Case No. 461 of 2020 registered for the offence under Section-30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016. The prosecution case, in short, is that 44 liters wine is recovered.

It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioners that

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.34191 of 2021(2) dt.10-09-2021 2/3 petitioners have got no criminal antecedent. There is no allegation of tampering of witnesses alleged against them. They have been falsely implicated in the present case. It is alleged that 44 litres wine is recovered from hill side. The names of the petitioners have transpired in this case on the basis of secret information. Except for this, there is no other substantive evidence to suggest the implication of the petitioners in the present case. Nothing incriminating has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioners. The petitioners had no knowledge regarding the alleged incident. There is no compliance of Section 100 Cr.P.C.

On behalf of the State, it is submitted that the petitioners are named in the F.I.R.

Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioners above named, in the event of arrest/surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on their personal bond to the satisfaction of learned Additional Sessions Judge-II-cum-Special Judge, Excise Act, Nawada in connection with Rajauli P.S. Case No. 461 of 2020, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.34191 of 2021(2) dt.10-09-2021 3/3 Once the normalcy is restored, the petitioners shall furnish bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each within a period of eight weeks to the satisfaction of the court concerned in connection with the aforesaid case.

(Sudhir Singh, J) A.K.V.//- U T