Bipin Kumar Yadav @ Bipin Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.27141 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-122 Year-2024 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Bipin Kumar Yadav @ Bipin Kumar Son Of Mahendra Prasad Yadav Resident Of Village - Balakarma, P.S. - Muffasil, District - Aurangabad ... ... Petitioner/S
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The State Of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Santosh Kumar Pandey For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Manoj Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 09-04-2024
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 offence punishable under Sections 30(a), 32(2) and 32(3) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2018 and Sections 41(i) and 41(2) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 129.60 litres of liquor from the house of the petitioner. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and after amendment in the Excise Act in the year 2018, the concept of deemed possession and presumed offender
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27141 of 2024(2) dt.09-04-2024 2/3 has been done away with. It is also submitted that the house in question is a joint family property as such it cannot be alleged with certainty that it was petitioner, who had kept the liquor in the house or the liquor kept in the house was within his knowledge and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of apprehended accused in police custody, which does not have any evidentiary value.
4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
5. 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 trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Aurangabad Excise Case No.122/2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
6. 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
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27141 of 2024(2) dt.09-04-2024 3/3 found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T