Ranjeet Sahni @ Chinak Sahni v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.29543 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-332 Year-2023 Thana- LALGANJ District- Vaishali ====================================================== Ranjeet Sahni @ Chinak Sahni Son of Deeplal Sahni @ Diplal Sahni Resident of Village- Salempur, P.S.- Lalganj, Dist.- Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shyameshwar Kumar Singh, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Pronoti Singh, APP.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 22-04-2024

1. Heared 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 offences punishable under Sections 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has three antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 60 liters of illicit country made liquor from Salempur Diyara.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession. It is further submitted that alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be implicated based on secret information which is easiest way to implicate

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.29543 of 2024(2) dt.22-04-2024 2/2 someone. Local people disclosed the name of the petitioner.

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

6. 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 trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen 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 Lalganj P.S. Case No. 332 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

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