Mantu Singh @ Mantu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.50073 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-594 Year-2021 Thana- RAJAOLI District- Nawada ====================================================== MANTU SINGH @ MANTU KUMAR S/o Suresh Singh Resident of Village-Gardh Dibour, P.S.-Rajauli, District-Nawada ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Shilpi Keshri, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Ram Anurag Singh, A.P.P.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 03-08-2023
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a)(d) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.
4. Allegation is of recovery of 20 litres of liquor from a forest area and 5 litres of liquor from a bush at NH 31.
5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated at the instance of the Chawkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is further submitted that even the alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.50073 of 2023(2) dt.03-08-2023 2/2
6. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
7. 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.1,000/- (Rupees One 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 Rajauli P.S. Case No. 594 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T