Sumit Kumar Singh @ Chandan Singh @ Sumit Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.39314 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-339 Year-2022 Thana- MAHUA District- Vaishali ====================================================== SUMIT KUMAR SINGH @ CHANDAN SINGH @ SUMIT SINGH SON OF UMESH SINGH R/O VILLAGE - MAHUA SINGH RAI, P.S.- MAHUA, DISTRICT- VAISHALI ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Arun, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Sanjay Kumar, 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 offences punishable under Sections 272, 273/34 of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of one case.

Allegation is of recovery of 1134 litre of liquor from a Bolero vehilce near Chand Sarai.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.39314 of 2022(2) dt.24-08-2022 2/2 recovered from his conscious possession. He further submits that petitioner is neither the owner nor the driver of the alleged vehicle and he came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate a person in order to save the real culprits.

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.10,000/- (Rupees Ten 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 Mahua P.S. Case No. 339 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T