Patna High CourtCR. MISC./28923/2023bail granted

Arvind Kumar Nat @ Arvind Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2023-05-18Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.28923 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-20 Year-2023 Thana- MEHANDIA District- Jehanabad ====================================================== ARVIND KUMAR NAT @ ARVIND KUMAR SON OF SHAHENDRA NAT R/O-BALIDAD NAT BIGHA, P.S.-MEHANDIA, DISTT.-ARWAL ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Shyam Bihari Singh, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 18-05-2023 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 (Amendment) Act, 2018. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent. Allegation is of recovery of 50 litres of liquor from a place near the house of the petitioner concealed in the straw. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession. It is further submitted that even the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner nor he is owner of the straw. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.28923 of 2023(2) dt.18-05-2023 2/2 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 Mehandia P.S. Case No. 20 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T