Santosh Paswan @ Santosh Kr. Paswan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.22441 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-1012 Year-2021 Thana- HAJIPUR SADAR District- Vaishali ====================================================== SANTOSH PASWAN @ SANTOSH KR. PASWAN son of Late Rambabu Paswan Resident of Village - Nunpur, P.s. Sadar Hajipur, District - Vaishali. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Shivjee Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Uday Pratap Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 05-08-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State through virtual Court proceedings. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act and Section 414 of the Indian Penal Code. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 200 litres of liquor from an auto. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, the petitioner is neither the driver nor the owner of the auto and he came to be implicated based on secret information. Learned counsel further submits that he was present in the virtual Court proceedings all

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.22441 of 2022(2) dt.05-08-2022 2/2 throughout and during hearing of the cases he could gather that in about 60 percent of the cases, the accused are being implicated based on secret information.

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

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. 2,000/- (Rupees Two Thousand) 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 Hajipur Sadar P.S. Case No. 1012 of 2021 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi/- U T