Prem Kumar Pandey @ Sugamani Pandey @ Suga Mani Pandey @ Pramod Kumar Pandey v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.25389 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-128 Year-2023 Thana- UDWANTNAGAR District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Prem Kumar Pandey @ Sugamani Pandey @ Suga Mani Pandey @ Pramod Kumar Pandey Son Of Late Murlidhar Pandey R/O Village- Udwantnagar Adhiyari Patti, Ps.- Udwantnagar, District- Bhojpur At Ara ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shashank Shekhar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Manoj Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 22-05-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 8.1 litres of liquor from a bag allegedly thrown by a co-accused person.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated based on secret information that it was the petitioner

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.25389 of 2023(2) dt.22-05-2023 2/2 who threw the bag and fled on seeing the police, it is thus submitted that secret information is the easiest way to implicate someone when admittedly the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

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. 1,000/- (Rupees One 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 Udawantnagar P.S. Case No. 128 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi/- U T