Rakesh Mahto @ Rajeev @ Rajeev Ranjan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.33175 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-76 Year-2023 Thana- PATEPUR District- Vaishali ====================================================== Rakesh Mahto @ Rajeev @ Rajeev Ranjan S/O- Maheshwar Mahto VillageMalpur Agrail Ps- Sakra Dist- Muzaffarpur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Shyam Bihari Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 25-05-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a), 32(ii) and 41(i) 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 990 litres of liquor from four vehicles as detailed in the FIR.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar, it is thus submitted that it appears that the Chowkidar in order to save the real culprits

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.33175 of 2023(2) dt.25-05-2023 2/2 falsely implicated the petitioner when admittedly the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is not the owner of any of the seized vehicles.

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 Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 1,000/- (Rupees One Thousand) 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 Patepur P.S. Case No. 76 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi/- U T