Chandan Mahto @ Chandan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.53346 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-746 Year-2023 Thana- MADHAURAH District- Saran ====================================================== 1.

Chandan Mahto @ Chandan Kumar Son Of Phuleshwar Mahto Resident Of Village - Piyarpurwa, P.S. - Madhowrah, District - Saran 2.

Mahendra Mahto Son Of Butai Mahto Resident Of Village - Piyarpurwa, P.S. - Madhowrah, District - Saran 3.

Guddu Mahto Son Of Musafir Mahto Resident Of Village - Piyarpurwa, P.S. - Madhowrah, District - Saran ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 30-08-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 147, 148, 149, 341, 323, 325, 332, 333, 307, 353 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 75 litres of liquor from a place near the house of Manoj Chaudhary. It is next submitted that petitioners were not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.53346 of 2024(2) dt.30-08-2024 2/3 conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioners and is accessible to public at large and they came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar. It is also submitted that police in majority of the cases implicates either at the instance of chowkidar, local person, secret information or confessional statement without holding proper investigation in a mechanical manner, when petitioners admittedly are persons with clean antecedent.

4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.

5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their 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.500/- (Rupees five 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 Madhowrah P.S. Case No.746/2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

6. It is made clear that the learned trial court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioners shall verify the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.53346 of 2024(2) dt.30-08-2024 3/3 criminal antecedents of the petitioners and in the event if it is found that petitioners have antecedent of even one case, in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T