Ranjit Yadav @ Ranjit Kumar Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.48059 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-21 Year-2024 Thana- GHURNA District- Araria ====================================================== RANJIT YADAV @ RANJIT KUMAR YADAV S/O SONELAL YADAV R/O VILLAGE- DUMARBANNA, WARD NO. 03, P.S- GHURANA, DISTT.- ARARIA.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Vijay Kishore Bharti, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Sanjay Kumar Pandey, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 22-07-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as 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 Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act in connection with Ghurna P.S. Case No.21 of 2024.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 72 liters of liquor from a motorcycle.

4. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not owner of the seized vehicle and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Rupesh in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.48059 of 2024(2) dt.22-07-2024 2/2

5. The learned APP for the State opposes the anticipatory bail application.

6. 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, 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-I, Araria in connection with Ghurna P.S. Case No.21 of 2024, subject to the conditions 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 antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect.

8. The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Prakash Narayan U T