Ranjit Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.25934 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-598 Year-2020 Thana- CHANPATIA District- West Champaran ====================================================== RANJIT KUMAR Son of Rajesh Soni @ Rajesh Sah Resident of Village - Garbhuwa Lala Tola, P.s.- Sirisya, (O.P.), Distt.- West Champaran. ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastava, Adv.
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.H.A. Khan, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 26-08-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State 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 414 IPC read with section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016. Altogether 5 liters of country made liquor is said to have been recovered from a motorcycle and the driver of the same was apprehended, who alleged the name of petitioner who fled from the spot on seeing the police.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.25934 of 2022(2) dt.26-08-2022 2/3 is quite innocent and has not committed any offence as alleged in the FIR. He has been falsely implicated in this case on the confessional statement of the apprehended co-accused. Petitioner has neither been apprehended on the spot nor any incriminating article has been recovered from his conscious physical possession. He has no concern either with the seized liquor or any trade of liquor. The motorcycle, from which the recovery though belongs to the petitioner but the same was taken by the apprehended accused for some necessary work. Petitioner has one criminal antecedent, as also mentioned in para-3 of this application.
Petitioner is agreed to deposit a sum of Rs. 10,000.00/- (Rupees Ten 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 below, where the case is pending/Successor court, in
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.25934 of 2022(2) dt.26-08-2022 3/3 connection with Chanpatia (Sirisiya O.P.) P.S. Case No.598 of 2020, 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.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) in the Juvenile Justice Fund.
(Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) pallavi/- U T