Santoo Choudhary @ Santu Chaudhary @ Santu Chaudhari v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.28036 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-98 Year-2024 Thana- MUFFASIL District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Santoo Choudhary @ Santu Chaudhary @ Santu Chaudhari S/O Nepal Chaudhary @ Ram Prasad Chaudhari R/O Village- Ora, P.S- Aurangabad Muffasil, Distt.- Aurangabad (Bihar).

... ... Petitioner/S

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Aman Vishal For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Khurshid Anwar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 15-04-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Excise Act.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 88.200 litres of liquor from an auto and a motorcycle as detailed in the F.I.R.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.28036 of 2024(2) dt.15-04-2024 2/3 neither the owner nor the driver of any of the seized vehicle and he came to be implicated based on secret information, which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is next submitted that it appears that the police in order to save the real culprit falsely implicated the petitioner, when admittedly petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the bail application.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner, abovenamed, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Special Judge, Excise Court No.1, Aurangabad in connection with Aurangabad Muffasil P. S. Case No.98 of 2024, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

8. It is made clear that the learned trial Court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.28036 of 2024(2) dt.15-04-2024 3/3 the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, the present anticipatory bail application shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T