Arjul v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.34923 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-226 Year-2022 Thana- JOKIHAT District- Araria ====================================================== ARJUL SON OF ALAUDDIN R/O VILLAGE- SAIFULLA, WARD NO.-11, P.S.- JOKIHAT (MAHALGAON), DISTRICT- ARARIA ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Manoj Kumar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 22-08-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

Let the defect(s), if any, be removed within a period of four weeks.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent. Allegation is of recovery of 3 litre of liquor from a motorcycle.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession. It is next submitted that petitioner had lent the motorcycle to his friend, as such, was

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.34923 of 2022(2) dt.22-08-2022 2/2 not aware that the same would be misused for such illegal purpose. It is further submitted that since the motorcycle belongs to the petitioner, as such, he came to be implicated at the instance of the Chawkidar and the local people. 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.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Jokihat (Mahalgaon) P.S. Case No. 226 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T