Sanjay Rai v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.36996 of 2021 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-132 Year-2021 Thana- GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL COMP. District- Patna ====================================================== SANJAY RAI Son of Vimal Rai Resident of Village- Kanhaipur, P.S.- Mokama, District- Patna.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Arun, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Binod Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 14-06-2022 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 offences under Section 30(a) of the Indian Penal Code.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that he received secret information that in a hut situated by the side of the road in village Kanhaipur, liquor has been kept, accordingly a raid was conducted but the accused on seeing the police force managed to flee and on search 17.28 litres liquor was recovered. It is next alleged that local persons disclosed the name of the petitioner as owner of the seized articles. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.36996 of 2021(2) dt.14-06-2022 2/2 petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case, neither the hut nor the seized liquor belongs to him, it is next submitted that the name of the petitioner was disclosed by the local villagers with whom he was on an inimical term. Further it is submitted that since nothing was recovered from conscious possession of the petitioner, the petitioner deserves to be enlarged on anticipatory bail.

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. 5,000/- (Rupees Five Thousand) each 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 Special Case No. 1392 of 2021 arising out of P.R. Case No.-B-132 of 2021 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi/- U T