Vikash Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.29647 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-81 Year-2022 Thana- BIDUPUR District- Vaishali ====================================================== VIKASH KUMAR S/O RAM BABU THAKUR Resident of VillageMaheswarpur, P.S.-Bidupur, District-Vaishali. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Khurshid Anwar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 12-08-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State through the virtual Court proceedings. Let the defect(s), if any, be removed within a period of four weeks.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Excise) Act, 2018. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent. Allegation is of recovery of 8.250 litre of liquor from a sack which was in possession of co-accused Rambabu Thakur. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from Rambabu Thakur. He further submits that

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.29647 of 2022(2) dt.12-08-2022 2/2 petitioner came to be implicated by the local people merely because he is son of Rambabu Thakur.

Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for 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.2,000/- (Rupees Two 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 Bidupur P.S. Case No. 81 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T