Vinod Singh @ Vinod Rai v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.29084 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-772 Year-2023 Thana- BIDUPUR District- Vaishali ====================================================== Vinod Singh @ Vinod Rai Son Of Sitab Rai Resident Of Village - Litiyahi, P.S. - Raghopur (RUSTAMPUR O.P), District - Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/S

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Anuj Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Md. Ataur Rahman ====================================================== 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 offence punishable under Sections 467, 468, 471, 120B, 420 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 30(a), 32(ii)(iii), 36, 41(i)(ii) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2022.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of seven cases and allegation is of recovery of 1.125 litres of liquor from a truck. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is neither the owner nor the driver of the seized truck and he came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is also submitted that it appears that the police in order to save the real culprit falsely implicated the petitioner taking advantage of his

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.29084 of 2024(2) dt.10-04-2024 2/2 antecedents.

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

5. 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.35000/- (Rupees thirty five thousand) 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 Raghopur (Rustampur O.P.) P.S. Case No.772/2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

6. 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 petitioner has antecedent of more than seven cases, in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to. (Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T