Sahdev Sahani v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.27446 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-119 Year-2023 Thana- RUNISAIDPUR District- Sitamarhi ====================================================== SAHDEV SAHANI S/O PARIKSHAN SAHANI Resident of VillageSonpurwa, P.S.- Runnuisaidpur, District- Sitamarhi. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Santosh Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Abhay Kumar Roy, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 17-05-2023 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 offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent. Allegation is of recovery of 10 litres of liquor from the place of occurrence and apprehended accused disclosed the name of the petitioner.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated based on the confessional statement of co-accused in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value in the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27446 of 2023(2) dt.17-05-2023 2/2 eye of law when admittedly petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner.

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 Runnisaidpur P.S. Case No. 119 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T