Rahul Kumar @ Anurudh Kumar @ Anirudh Prasad v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.27435 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-73 Year-2024 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Nawada ====================================================== Rahul Kumar @ Anurudh Kumar @ Anirudh Prasad S/o- Sitram Prasad @ Awdhesh Mahto Village- Dedaur PS-Mufassil Dist- Nawada ... ... Petitioner

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Rudra Deo, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Akbar Ali, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 10-04-2024 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 16.875 litres of liquor from possession of apprehended accused Gulshan Kumar.

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 even alleged recovery is from Gulshan Kumar, with whom he has no connection or relation. It is next submitted that he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Gulshan in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value, when

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27435 of 2024(2) dt.10-04-2024 2/2 admittedly petitioner is a person with clean antecedent. 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 Excise P.S. Case No. 73 of 2024 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. 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