Prabhakar Singh v. The State Of Bihar Through Vigilance Patna
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
Criminal Miscellaneous No.32292 of 2016 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -40 Year- 2016 Thana -C.B.I CASE District- PATNA ====================================================== Prabhakar Singh son of Sri Ram Sagar Singh, resident of Village/ MohallaSarvodaya Nagar, P.S- Nagar, District- Begusarai. .... .... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar through Vigilance, Patna.
.... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Nilesh Kumar For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Ramakant Sharma(L.O.I/C Vig.) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 19-08-2016 Heard Sri Ajay Thakur, learned counsel who was assisted by Sri Nilesh Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Rama Kant Sharma, learned Senior Law Officer, Vigilance Department who was assisted by Sri Kedar Singh, learned AC to Senior Law Officer.
The petitioner , who is in custody since 8.4.2016 in Vigilance P.S. Case No. 40 of 2016 corresponding to Special Case No. 18 of 2016 registered for offence under section 7, 8, 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 , has prayed for grant of bail.
It was submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner was falsely trapped on an accusation of recovery of about Rs. 36,000/- currency notes. He submits that petitioner is
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32292 of 2016 (2) dt.19-08-2016 2/2 Karamchari and has committed no offence and maliciously he has been accused whereas Sri Sharma, learned Senior Law Officer opposing the prayer submits that recovered currency notes were tallied with pre -trap memorandum. He further submits that after investigation charge sheet has already been submitted in this case. Keeping in view the fact that the case relates to allegation of trap and recovery as well as the fact that in such cases there are limited number of witnesses, the court is of the opinion that instead of granting bail the petition can be rejected with direction to the court blow to take steps for early conclusion of the case.
If police paper has not been supplied till date, the Vigilance Investigation Bureau is directed to supply police paper within a period of fifteen days from today and thereafter the learned Trial Judge will take up the matter at least twice in a week so that the case may come to its logical end without any delay preferably within a period of four months from the date of supply of police paper.
With above direction the petition stands dismissed. (Rakesh Kumar, J) Praful/- U T