Ramnandan Kumar @ Phulo Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.39995 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-95 Year-2023 Thana- PARANDABAR District- Nawada ====================================================== RAMNANDAN KUMAR @ PHULO YADAV S/O AMIRAK YADAV @ AMIRAKA YADAV R/O Village- Kanti, PS.Fatehpur, Dist. Gaya (Bihar) ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Subodh Kumar, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Navin Kumar Pandey, APP.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 28-07-2023 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 offences punishable under Section 30 (a), 41 of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2016.

3. Altogether, 80 litres country made liquor has been recovered from a Hero Splendor plus motorcycle bearing chasis no. MBLHAW096KHF07459. Two persons were apprehended on the spot.

4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is quite innocent and has committed no offence. No incriminating article has been recovered from the conscious physical possession of the petitioner rather the seized illicit

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.39995 of 2023(2) dt.28-07-2023 2/3 liquor is said to have been recovered from a motorcycle. Petitioner has no concern either with the seized liquor or the place of recovery or any trade of liquor. The allegation levelled against the petitioner is not specific rather general and omnibus in nature. Petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case at the instance of his enemy. He was not apprehended on the spot. There is nothing on record to indicate the complicity of the petitioner barring the confessional statement of the apprehended persons which has no evidentiary value in the eye of law. It is further submitted that apprehended co-accused persons disclosed that the above mentioned motorcycle belongs to this petitioner, but from para 7 of the bail petition, it is evident that petitioner has no concern with the above mentioned motorcycle. Petitioner has no criminal antecedent as mentioned in para-3 of this application.

5. Petitioner is agreed to deposit a sum of Rs. 10,000.00 (Rupees Ten Thousand) in account of Patna High Court Legal Services Committee, Patna, bearing Account No.1413010060836, IFSC Code: PUNB0141320, Punjab National Bank, Bar Council Branch, Patna.

6. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail, in the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.39995 of 2023(2) dt.28-07-2023 3/3 event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court below where the case is pending/successor Court in connection with Parnadabar P.S. Case No. 95 of 2023, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C, subject to the further conditions that

(1) One of the bailors will be his own blood relative, preferably, father, mother, brother, sister and/or his wife.

(2) The petitioner shall not indulge himself in any similar offence till conclusion of the trial.

7. The bail bond of the petitioner shall be accepted by the learned Court below on showing receipt of deposit of the aforesaid amount in Patna High Court Legal Services Committee, Patna.

(Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) divyanshi/- U T