Raju Chaudhary v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.54426 of 2015 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -377 Year- 2015 Thana -JAHANABAD District- JEHANABAD ====================================================== Raju Chaudhary S/O Jagdish Chaudhary, R/O Village- East Unta Mushar Toli, P.S.- Jehanabad, District- Jehanabad.

.... .... Petitioner

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s : Ms. Rina Sinha, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Jharkhandi Upadhayay, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ASHWANI KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 09-12-2015 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State.

The petitioner seeks pre-arrest bail in connection with Jehanabad P. S. Case No. 377 of 2015 under Sections 272 and 273 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 47(a) of Excise Act. The petitioner is one of the named accused persons in the FIR. Allegation is that the accused persons were found selling illicit mahua liquor and on seeing the police party, they managed to escape. The police could manage to seize 200 litres of illicit mahua liquor from the place of occurrence.

Regard being had to the nature of the offence; I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly,

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.54426 of 2015 (2) dt.09-12-2015 2/2 his application for anticipatory bail is rejected. In case, the petitioner surrenders and seeks bail, the same shall be considered on its own merit without being prejudiced in any manner by this order.

(Ashwani Kumar Singh, J.) Kanchan/- U T