Urmila Devi @ Urbil Devi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.41837 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-116 Year-2023 Thana- CHANDAUTI District- Gaya ====================================================== URMILA DEVI @ URBIL DEVI Wife of Samuh Manjhi @ Late Samuh Manjhi Resident of village - Bahadur Bigha, P.S.-Chandauti, District-Gaya ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Sunil Kumar Yadav, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Atul Chandra, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 05-07-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a woman having clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 40 litres of liquor from the forest area. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from her conscious possession and she came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar with whom her husband is on an inimical term, it is further submitted that even the alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.41837 of 2023(2) dt.05-07-2023 2/2 public at large.
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 her 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 Chandauti P.S. Case No. 116 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi/- U T