Rajdeo Manjhi @ Rajdeo Bhuiyan @ Rajdev Bhuiya v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.33135 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-492 Year-2023 Thana- SIRDALA District- Nawada ====================================================== Rajdeo Manjhi @ Rajdeo Bhuiyan @ Rajdev Bhuiya Son of Hemraj Manjhi Resident of Village - Kewal, P.S.- Sirdalla, District - Nawada. .. ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sheo Kumar Prasad For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Damodar Prasad Tiwary ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 10-05-2024

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 offences punishable under Sections 30(a), 30(c) and 41 of the Bihar Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of three cases and allegation is of recovery of 250 liters of liquor along with 1400 liters of fermented Jawa Mahua from a place near a forest at villageBahuaara.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is also submitted that if the Chowkidar was aware of the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.33135 of 2024(2) dt.10-05-2024 2/2 involvement of the petitioner in the occurrence then why he did not inform the police prior to institution of the instant FIR which casts an aspersion on the case of the prosecution.

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

6. 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 trial court 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 trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Sirdalla P.S. Case No. 492 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. However, it is made clear the learned Trial Court 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 order shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T