Manish Kumar @ Pintu v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.47849 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-29 Year-2022 Thana- DANAPUR District- Patna ====================================================== MANISH KUMAR @ PINTU SON OF LATE PRAMOD RAI R/O VILLAGE- LAL KOTHI SULTANPUR, P.S.- DANAPUR, DISTRICTPATNA ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Saurav Anand, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Atul Chandra, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 04-11-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State through virtual Court proceedings. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 2160 litres of liquor from a Tata Magic vehicle, a Scooty, a Pulsar motorcycle and a Splendar motorcycle. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, it is next submitted that petitioner is neither the owner nor the driver of

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.47849 of 2022(2) dt.04-11-2022 2/2 any of the alleged vehicle and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Vickey Kumar and Mantosh Kumar in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value.

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 trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 1,000/- (Rupees One Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Danapur P.S. Case No. 29 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Shivam/- U T