Subodh Paswan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.33000 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-682 Year-2023 Thana- HARNAUT District- Nalanda ====================================================== Subodh Paswan S/o Kailash Paswan R/o vill - Sabnhudin, P.S. - Harnaut, distt. - Nalanda ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr.Akshay Lal Pandit, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 07-05-2024

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 Act in connection with Harnaut P.S. Case No.682 of 2023.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 9.9 liters of liquor from the house of the petitioner.

4. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.33000 of 2024(2) dt.07-05-2024 2/3 possession and after amendment in the Excise Act in the year 2018 the concept of deemed possession and presumed offender has been done away with. It is also submitted that the house in question is a joint family property as such it cannot be alleged with certainty that it was petitioner who had kept the liquor in the house or the liquor kept in the house was within the knowledge of the petitioner and he came to be implicated at the instance of 'Chowkidar' with whom he is on inimical term.

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. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional District & Sessions Judge, V-cum-Special Judge Excise-1, Biharsharif, Nalanda in connection with Harnaut P.S. Case No.682 of 2023., 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

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.33000 of 2024(2) dt.07-05-2024 3/3 criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect.

8. The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Prakash Narayan U T