Md Eshtekhar Ahmad Kha @ Md Eshtkhar @ Eshtkhar Ahmad v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31493 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-27 Year-2024 Thana- KARPURIGRAM District- Samastipur ====================================================== Md Eshtekhar Ahmad Kha @ Md Eshtkhar @ Eshtkhar Ahmad son of Md. Reyaz Ahmad @ Reyaz Ahmad R/O-Village Chak Abdul Gani PS Karpurigram, Distt- Samastipur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Ajay Kumar No. 2, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 30-04-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as 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 Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of one case and allegation is of recovery of 06 liters of liquor from a place behind the house of the petitioner.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31493 of 2024(2) dt.30-04-2024 2/3

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

5. The learned APP for the State opposes the anticipatory bail application.

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 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.5000/- (Rupees Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Judge Excise-01, Samastipur in connection with Karpurigram P.S. Case No.27 of 2024, subject to the conditions 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 antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more than one case, in

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31493 of 2024(2) dt.30-04-2024 3/3 that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect.

8. The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Prakash Narayan U T