Sukhram Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.35326 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-27 Year-2024 Thana- SAHODARA District- West Champaran ====================================================== Sukhram Manjhi Son of Late Shankar Manjhi R/O Vill.- Kharkhatwa, P.S.- Sahodara, Dist.- West Champaran.
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State Of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Sharad Kumar Verma For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Khurshid Anwar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 16-05-2024
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 offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 5 litres of liquor from a gallon allegedly through by the petitioner. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a gallon, which does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be implicated at the instance of independent witnesses but then the name of the witnesses who disclosed the name of the petitioner is not disclosed in the F.I.R., which casts an aspersion on the case of prosecution, when petitioner
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.35326 of 2024(2) dt.16-05-2024 2/2 admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.
4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
5. 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 trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Sahodara P.S. Case FIR No.27/2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
6. 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 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) amit/- U T