Patna High CourtCR. MISC./41074/2022bail granted

Pradeep Kumar Gupta v. The State Of Bihar

2022-08-25Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.41074 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-89 Year-2022 Thana- RUDRAPUR District- Madhubani ====================================================== PRADEEP KUMAR GUPTA S/o Jagdish Sahu R/o village- Nanaur, P.S.- Rudrapur, District- Madhubani ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr.Upendra Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 25-08-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 272 and 273 of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 9.375 liter of liquor from the bushes behind the coaccused Ashok Kumar Sah's house. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, even the alleged recovery was made from a place which does not belong to the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.41074 of 2022(2) dt.25-08-2022 2/2 petitioner 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. 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 Rudrapur P.S. Case No. 89 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

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