Rahul Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.43582 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-135 Year-2024 Thana- PANAPUR District- Saran ====================================================== 1.

Rahul Kumar Son of Deo Chand Nut R/O Vill.- Bijauli, P.S.- Panapur, Dist.- Saran 2.

Yogendra Nut Son of Chandrama Nut R/O Vill.- Bijauli, P.S.- Panapur, Dist.- Saran 3.

Deo Chandra Nut @ Udaychand Nut Son of Punyakal Nut R/O Vill.- Bijauli, P.S.- Panapur, Dist.- Saran ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Ms. Mili Kumari For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Shahabuddin Azeem @ S. Azeem ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 08-07-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2016.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 180 litres of spirit from the field of Rameshwar Singh. It is next submitted that petitioners were not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.43582 of 2024(2) dt.08-07-2024 2/3 which does not belong to the petitioners and is accessible to public at large and they came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with whom they are on an inimical term. It is next submitted that it appears that the chowkidar in order to save the real culprit falsely implicated the petitioners, when petitioners admittedly are persons with clean antecedent.

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

5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their 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.500/- (Rupees five hundred) each 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 Panapur P.S. Case No.135/2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

6. It is made clear that the learned trial court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioners shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioners and in the event if it is found that petitioners have antecedent of even one case, in that

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.43582 of 2024(2) dt.08-07-2024 3/3 event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T