Patna High CourtCR. MISC./37184/2024bail granted

Jitendra Yadav @ Jitendra Kumar Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

2024-06-24Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma3 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.37184 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-94 Year-2023 Thana- LAUKAHA District- Madhubani ====================================================== Jitendra Yadav @ Jitendra Kumar Yadav, son of Hareram Yadav VillageBalanpatti, Ps- Laukaha, Dist- Madhubani ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Jitendra Bharti For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Damodar Prasad Tiwary ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 24-06-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 272 and 273 of the I.P.C. and Section 30(a) of the Excise Act.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 87 litres of liquor from a motorcycle.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such,

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.37184 of 2024(2) dt.24-06-2024 2/3 nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of the seized vehicle and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of co-accused in police custody, which does not have any evidentiary value.

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

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner, abovenamed, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of ten weeks, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Special Excise Judge, Jhanjharpur, Madhubani in connection with Laukaha P. S. Case No.94 of 2023, G.R. No.250 of 2023, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

8. It is made clear that the learned trial Court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.37184 of 2024(2) dt.24-06-2024 3/3 the criminal antecedent 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 application shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T