Patna High CourtCR. MISC./23354/2022bail granted

Kunal Singh @ Kunal Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar

2022-08-05Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.23354 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-318 Year-2020 Thana- MAJHAULIA District- West Champaran ====================================================== KUNAL SINGH @ KUNAL KUMAR SINGH S/o- Vasishth Singh Resident of Village - Madhopur, P.S. - Majhaulia, District - West Champaran. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Sunil Kumar Pandey, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Lakshmi Kant Sharma, 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 Sections 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act and Sections 414 and 34 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 5.400 liter of liquor from a plastic bag kept on a motorcycle.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, even the motorcycle does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.23354 of 2022(2) dt.05-08-2022 2/2 implicated based on the confessional statement of Chotu Singh which has no evidentiary value.

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 and the fact that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent, 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 court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Majhaulia P.S. Case No. 318 of 2020 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi/- U T