Mantu Singh @ Mantu Kumar @ Manta v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.33819 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-56 Year-2023 Thana- KHUSRUPUR District- Patna ====================================================== Mantu Singh @ Mantu Kumar @ Manta S/O Saina Yadav @ Saina Singh R/O Village- Kayampur, P.S- Khushrupur, Distt.- Patna. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Rajesh Kumar Sinha For the Opposite Party/s :

Md. Shakir Ahmad ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 09-05-2024 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 Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of one case and allegation is of recovery of 80 litres of liquor from a place behind the house of Dinesh Singh.

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 alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large and does not belong to the petitioner. It is next submitted that

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.33819 of 2024(2) dt.09-05-2024 2/3 petitioner has no relation or concern with Dinesh Singh. It is next submitted that he came to implicated at the instance of local person but then it absolutely does not stand to reason that if local people was aware of the involvement of the petitioner in the occurrence then why he/she did not inform the police prior to institution of the instant FIR, which further casts 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. 5,000/- (Rupees Five 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 Khushrupur P.S. Case No. 56 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

7.

It is made clear that the learned trial court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.33819 of 2024(2) dt.09-05-2024 3/3 found that the petitioner has antecedent of more than one case, in that event the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) SUMIT/- U T