Ashok Paswan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.33025 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-208 Year-2022 Thana- Dehri Mufassil District- Rohtas ====================================================== Ashok Paswan, Son Of Late Nathuni Ram @ Nathuni Paswan Resident Of Village- Lalganj (TOLA), Ps- Dehi (MUF.) Distt- Rohtas At Sasaram ... ... Petitioner/S

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Raghunandan Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms.Renu Kumari ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 25-05-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Excise Act, 2018.

The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 17 litres of liquor from a sack thrown by the accused persons.

The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that 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 which is accessible to public at large and he came to be

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.33025 of 2023(2) dt.25-05-2023 2/2 implicated at the instance of Chaukidar. The learned counsel next submits that Chaukidar in order to save the real culprits falsely implicated the petitioner, when admittedly petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

Learned A.P.P. opposes the bail application.

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, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs. 1,000/- (Rupees One Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Judge, Court No.1, Rohtas at Sasaram in connection with Dehri (Muf.) P. S. Case No.208 of 2022, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T