Ranjeet Choudhary @ Ranjeet Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.53469 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-88 Year-2023 Thana- RAFIGANJ District- Aurangabad ====================================================== RANJEET CHOUDHARY @ RANJEET KUMAR SON OF LATE BABULAL CHOUDHARY RESIDENT OF VILLAGE - NAIKI, P.S. - RAFIGANJ, DISTRICT - AURANGABAD ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Ms. Shaheen Begum, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 17-08-2023

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 Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of one case and allegation is of recovery of 30 liters of liquor from the house of Ram Pravesh Chaudhary.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, it is next submitted that even the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner, it is next submitted that he came to be implicated based on secret information as well as in the disclosure made by

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.53469 of 2023(2) dt.17-08-2023 2/2 Ram Pravesh Chaudhary. The learned counsel next submits that based on the information furnished by Ram Pravesh, the house of the petitioner was also raided and the petitioner was arrested for which Rafiganj P.S. Case No. 89 of 2023 was instituted, it is next submitted that petitioner was sent to judicial custody, but later he was released on bail but he was not remanded in the present case.

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 Rafiganj P.S. Case No. 88 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T