Reeta Devi @ Reeta Kunwar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.47909 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-226 Year-2024 Thana- SIWAN MUFFASIL District- Siwan ====================================================== Reeta Devi @ Reeta Kunwar Wife Of Late Dhurpal Sah Resident Of VillJhunapur, P.S.- Mahadewa, District- Siwan. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Shailendra Kumar Dwivedi For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Rabindra Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 18-07-2024 1.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2.

The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of one case and is a woman and allegation is of recovery of 20 litres of liquor from a bush adjacent to the house of the petitioner.

4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from her conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large and does not belong to the petitioner, but then is adjacent to her house and she came to be implicated based on secret information which is the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.47909 of 2024(2) dt.18-07-2024 2/2 easiest way to implicate someone.

5.

Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

6.

Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 5,000/- (Rupees Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Siwan Mufasil (Mahadewa O.P) P.S. Case No. 226 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. 7.

It is made clear that the learned trial court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that the petitioner has antecedent of more than one case, in that event the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to. (Satyavrat Verma, J) SUMIT/- U T