Patna High CourtCR. MISC./43775/2024bail granted

Ranjeet Kumar @ Ranjit Singh @ Karan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2024-07-11Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma3 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.43775 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-74 Year-2024 Thana- BADHAILA District- Rohtas ====================================================== Ranjeet Kumar @ Ranjit Singh @ Karan Kumar S/o Tulashi Singh R/o Village - Rotwan, P.S. Baghaila, District Rohtas ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Ajay Kumar Tiwari For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Ramchandra Sahni ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 11-07-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Excise Act.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 06 litres of liquor from a government toilet at Rotwan Bazar.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.43775 of 2024(2) dt.11-07-2024 2/3 even alleged recovery is from a government toilet, as such, petitioner came to be implicated based on secret information, which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is next submitted that it appears that the police in order to save the real culprit falsely implicated the petitioner.

5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the bail application.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner, abovenamed, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Judge Excise-1, Rohtas at Sasaram in connection with Baghaila P. S. Case No.74 of 2024, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

8. It is made clear that the learned trial Court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.43775 of 2024(2) dt.11-07-2024 3/3 it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, the present anticipatory bail application shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T