Nav Ratan Kumar @ Navratan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.39157 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-145 Year-2021 Thana- GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL COMP. District- Jamui ====================================================== NAV RATAN KUMAR @ NAVRATAN KUMAR S/o Tripti Narayan Singh R/o village and P.O.- Samas Bujurga, P.S.- Barbigha, District- Sheikhpura ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mrs. Pronoti Singh, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 24-08-2022 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 (Amendment) Act, 2018. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent. Allegation is of recovery of 24.75 litre of liquor from the motorcycle.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession. He further submits

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.39157 of 2022(2) dt.24-08-2022 2/2 that though the petitioner is the owner of the motorcycle but the same was stolen for which an FIR was instituted on 12.01.2021, Annexure-2 and the present case came to be instituted on 14.04.2021.

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 Excise Case No. 145C-2 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T