Ranjeet Kumar Sahani @ Ranjeet Sahani v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.50327 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-218 Year-2023 Thana- RAJEPUR District- East Champaran ====================================================== Ranjeet Kumar Sahani @ Ranjeet Sahani Son of Late Satya Narayan Sahani Resident of Village - Bhurkutwa, P.S. - Rajepur, District - East Champaran. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Madhurendra Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Arun Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 25-07-2024

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 Sections 272, 273, 290, 353 and 34 of the IPC and Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act in connection with Rajepur P.S. Case No.218 of 2023.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 18.460 liters of liquor from a banana orchard behind the house of Prem Shankar Sahni.

4. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.50327 of 2024(2) dt.25-07-2024 2/3 from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated at the instance of local person, but then the name of the person who disclosed the name of the petitioner is not disclosed in the FIR which cast an aspersion on the case of the prosecution.

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 Excise Court No.3, East Champaran at Motihari in connection with Rajepur P.S. Case No.218 of 2023, 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

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.50327 of 2024(2) dt.25-07-2024 3/3 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