Rohit Singh @ Aarav Kr. Singh @ Rohit Kumar @ Rohit Kr. Singh v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31475 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-54 Year-2024 Thana- BADHAILA District- Rohtas ====================================================== 1.
Rohit Singh @ Aarav Kr. Singh @ Rohit Kumar @ Rohit Kr. Singh S/o- Sri Sunil Singh Resident of Village- Siyawak, P.S.- Baghaila, District- Rohtas 2.
Ankit Kumar S/o- Late Surendra Singh Resident of Village- Siyawak, P.S.- Baghaila, District- Rohtas 3.
Ajeet Chaudhary @ Aditya Kumar @ Ajeet Kumar S/o- Sri Sanjay Chaudhary @ Sanjay Chaudhari Resident of Village- Kujhi, P.S.- Baghaila, District- Rohtas ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Manish Kumar No 13, Advocate For the State :
Md. Iftekhar Mahmood, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JITENDRA KUMAR ORAL ORDER 15-05-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.
2. The present petition has been filed on behalf of the petitioners, apprehending their arrest, in connection with Baghaila PS. Case No.-54 of 2024 dated 10.03.2024, registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.
3. As per allegation, 34.20 litre of illicit liquor has been recovered from the house of co-accused, Basant Sah. As per further allegation, the co-accused, including the petitioners, used to sell liquor from their house.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31475 of 2025(2) dt.15-05-2025 2/3
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the Petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in this case. He further submits that nothing has been recovered from the possession of the petitioners or from their houses. He further submits that names of the petitioners have transpired only in the confessional statement of co-accused which has no evidentiary value.
5. It is also stated in paragraph no. 2 of the bail petition that the petitioners have not moved this Court earlier either for anticipatory bail or regular one in the instant case.
6. It has further been stated in paragraph no.3 of the petition that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent.
7. Learned APP for the State vehemently opposes the prayer of the Petitioners for bail.
8. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, this petition is allowed, directing the petitioners above-named, to be enlarged on bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the court below within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt / production of a copy of this order, on their furnishing bail bonds in the sum of Rs. 10,000 /- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned concerned Court Below, in connection
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31475 of 2025(2) dt.15-05-2025 3/3 with Baghaila P.S. Case No.-54 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the B.N.S.S., 2023 and on the following conditions:
(i) In case, it is brought to the notice of the court below that the petitioners have any criminal antecedents, learned court below shall cancel the bail bonds of the petitioners after hearing them and getting satisfied that the petitioners have concealed their criminal antecedents despite their knowledge of the same.
(ii) In case, it is brought to the notice of the court below that statement regarding previous bail petition is wrong, learned court below shall cancel the bail bonds of the petitioners.
(Jitendra Kumar, J) shoaib/- U T