Shankar Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31326 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-27 Year-2022 Thana- NAWADA MUFFASIL District- Nawada ====================================================== SHANKAR MANJHI S/o Karu Manjhi R/o village - Lohra Biharichak, P.S. - Muffasil, District - Nawada.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Pramod Kumar Verma, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Sharma, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 09-12Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State through virtual Court proceedings. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a), 30(d) of the Bihar Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 155.6 liters of liquor from Durpat Manjhi's house and 200 liters of Java which was destroyed.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated by local people but then the FIR does not disclose the names of the local people.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31326 of 2022(3) dt.09-12-2022 2/2 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 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) each 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 Nawada Mufassil P.S. Case No. 27 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

Further, 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 any criminal antecedent then the present anticipatory bail order shall not be acted upon.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) GauravSinha/- U T