Alok Kumar @ Chikku v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.48298 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-42 Year-2022 Thana- DHAMDAHA District- Purnia ====================================================== ALOK KUMAR @ CHIKKU S/O UMESH YADAV Resident of villageAmori Kukraun, P.S.- Dhamdaha, District- Purnea. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Parmeshwar Mehta, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 13-12-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

Let the defect(s), if any, be removed within a period of four weeks.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 323, 379, 353, 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 7 of the E.C. Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

The informant alleges that he along with police force reached the shop of the retailer fertilizer on complaint that he used to sell fertilizers at an exorbitant price. Further, the retailer along with another fled away and refused to get the godown inspected, thus, alleges that retailer was selling fertilizer without licence in the premises at an exorbitant rate.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.48298 of 2022(2) dt.13-12-2022 2/2 has been falsely implicated in the present case being brother of Bikash Kumar who has a licence for selling fertilizer in his name. It is further submitted that Bikash Kumar has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide order dated 13.12.2022 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 42704 of 2022.

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

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 from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Dhamdaha P.S. Case No. 42 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T