Sikendar Kamat @ Sikandar Kamat @ Satyendra Kamat v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31778 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-141 Year-2023 Thana- KISHANPUR District- Supaul ====================================================== Sikendar Kamat @ Sikandar Kamat @ Satyendra Kamat, Son Of Bindeshwari Kamat Village- Tulapatti, Ward No. 03, Ps- Kishanpur, Dist- Supaul ... ... Petitioner/S

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Kumar Goutam For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Md. Anzarul Haque Sahara ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 30-04-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and 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 Excise Act.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of three cases and the allegation is of recovery of 63 litres of liquor from a motorcycle.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31778 of 2024(2) dt.30-04-2024 2/3 is not the owner of the seized vehicle and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Pramod Kumar in police custody, which does not have any evidentiary value. It is also submitted that the police through Pramod Kumar got the petitioner implicated because of his antecedent in order to save the real culprit.

5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the bail application.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner, abovenamed, 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. 15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Judge, Excise Court No.01, Supaul in connection with Kishanpur P. S. Case No.141 of 2023, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

8. It is made clear that the learned trial Court

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31778 of 2024(2) dt.30-04-2024 3/3 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 three cases, in that event, the present anticipatory bail application shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T