Ranjeet Sahni v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.32881 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-451 Year-2022 Thana- LALGANJ District- Vaishali ====================================================== Ranjeet Sahni Son of Pachkauri Sahni @ Rajdev Sahni R/O Vill. - Khanjahanchak, P.S.- Lalganj, Dist.- Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Subodh Prasad, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Kanhiya Kishor, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 07-05-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of three cases.

4. Allegation is of recovery of 35 litres of liquor from a boat.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of the seized boat and he came to be implicated at the instance of the Chawkidar with whom petitioner is on an inimical term. It is further submitted that the police in mechanical manner implicate

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.32881 of 2024(2) dt.07-05-2024 2/3 either at the instance of the Chawkidar or the local persons but then it absolutely does not stand to reason that if the Chawkidar was aware of the involvement of the petitioner in the occurrence then why he did not inform the police prior to the institution of the instant FIR which casts an aspersion on the case of the prosecution.

6. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

7. 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.15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen 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 Lalganj P.S. Case No. 451 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

8. However, the learned trial court, before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner, shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more than three cases in that event the present

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.32881 of 2024(2) dt.07-05-2024 3/3 anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T