Vikash Kumar @ Vikash Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.25605 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-217 Year-2021 Thana- BENIPATTI District- Madhubani ====================================================== VIKASH KUMAR @ VIKASH KUMAR SINGH S/o Pawan Kumar Singh R/o village- Bishnupur, Madhubani, Bihar- 847102 ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Aryan Sinha For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Rana Randhir Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 02-09-2022 Heard the parties through virtual Court proceedings. Learned counsel for the petitioner undertakes to remove the defects within four weeks of resumption of normal court proceedings. In the eventuality of non-removal of defects within undertaken period, office will place the matter before the Bench. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with a case registered for the offence punishable u/s 272, 273, 120(B) of IPC and u/s 30(A), 41 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016. Altogether 1551.375 liters of foreign liquor is said to have been recovered from the spot. The police apprehended few persons from the spot and they disclosed the name of the petitioner.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is quite innocent and has not committed any offence as alleged in the FIR. He has been falsely implicated in this case due to
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.25605 of 2022(2) dt.02-09-2022 2/3 ulterior motive. His name transpired in the case because of the statement of apprehended persons. Petitioner has neither been apprehended on the spot nor any incriminating article has been recovered from his conscious physical possession. Petitioner has no concern either with the seized liquor or any trade of liquor. The illicit liquor has been recovered from brick kiln of coaccused and a truck, and the petitioner is not the owner of the truck. Similarly situated co-accused has been granted bail by a co-ordinate bench of this court vide order dated 24.02.2022 in Cr. Misc. No.7051 of 2022. Petitioner has no criminal antecedent, as also mentioned in para-3 of this application. Petitioner is agreed to deposit a sum of Rs.75,000.00/- (Rupees Seventy Five Thousand) in the Juvenile Justice Fund, Bihar bearing Account No.35094613009, IFSC SBIN0000153, State Bank of India, Patna Secretariat Sinchai Bhawan Branch, Patna.
Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioner named above, in the event of his arrest/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.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.25605 of 2022(2) dt.02-09-2022 3/3 below, where the case is pending/Successor court, in connection with Benipatti P.S. Case No.217 of 2021, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C, as also the following conditions:
(1) One of the bailors will be a close relative of the petitioner, who will give an affidavit giving genealogy as to how he is related with petitioner. He will also undertake to inform the Court if there is any change in the address of petitioner. (2) The bailor shall also state on affidavit that he will inform the Court concerned if the petitioner is implicated in any other case of similar nature and thereafter the Court below will be at liberty to initiate proceeding for cancellation of anticipatory bail on the ground of misuse.
The bail bond of the petitioner shall be accepted by the learned Court below on showing receipt of deposit of Rs.75,000/- (Rupees Seventy Five Thousand) in the Juvenile Justice Fund. (Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) shikha/- U T