Pradeep Kumar @ Paltan Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.50989 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-73 Year-2021 Thana- GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL COMP. District- Madhepura ====================================================== Pradeep Kumar @ Paltan Yadav SON OF RAJENDAR YADAV VILLAGEBHELWA, WARD NO. 1, PS- GAMHARIA, DIST- MADHEPURA ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ranjay Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Braj Kishore Pd.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 29-07-2024

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 Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of two cases and allegation is of recovery of 274 liters of liquor from a staircase in north of the house of Prince Prabhakar.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and after amendment in the Excise Act in the year 2018, the concept of deemed

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.50989 of 2024(2) dt.29-07-2024 2/3 possession and presumed offender has been done away with. It is next submitted that even the house in question is a joint family property, as such, it cannot be alleged with certainty that it was the petitioner who had kept the liquor in the house or the liquor kept in the house was within his knowledge. It is also submitted that petitioner came to be implicated because he is son of Prince Prabhakar.

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

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 trial court 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 trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Madhepura Excise P.S. Case No. 73 of 2021-2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. However, it is made clear 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.50989 of 2024(2) dt.29-07-2024 3/3 found that petitioner has antecedent of more than two cases in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T