Jai Bhagwan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.32875 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-450 Year-2024 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Muzaffarpur ====================================================== Jai Bhagwan Son of Jagdish Singh R/O Vill. - House No. 19, Bamheta Shahpur, P.S. Ghaziabad, Dist.- Ghaziabad, U.P. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Mukesh Kumar Jha, 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 offences punishable under Sections 30(a) and 32(3) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

4. Allegation is of recovery of 1011.6 litres of liquor from two vehicles as detailed in the FIR.

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 he came to be implicated based on the fact that he is owner of the seized Mini Truck. It is further submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing an occurrence and thus would create

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.32875 of 2024(2) dt.07-05-2024 2/2 evidence against himself and hence would get implicated and at the same time would bring disrepute to his business. It is next submitted that petitioner was completely unaware that his driver would misuse the vehicle in the manner as alleged.

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.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Excise P.S. Case No. 450 of 2024, 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 even one case in that event the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T