Pawan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.54233 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-953 Year-2022 Thana- FATUA District- Patna ====================================================== 1.
Pawan Kumar SON OF SHIVRATAN RAY @ SHIVRATAN SINGH R/O VILLAGE- BHAGWANPUR, PS- FATUHA, DIST- PATNA 2.
AJIT KUMAR SON OF SHIVRATAN RAY @ SHIVRATAN SINGH R/O VILLAGE- BHAGWANPUR, PS- FATUHA, DIST- PATNA ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Harish Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Md. Matloob Rab, A.P.P.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 06-08-2024
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 Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2018.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent.
4. Allegation is of recovery of 150 litres of liquor from three sacks.
5. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners were not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioners and they came to be implicated based on the secret information
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.54233 of 2024(2) dt.06-08-2024 2/2 which is the easiest way to implicate someone, when petitioners admittedly are persons with clean antecedent.
6. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.
7. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, let 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 Hundred) each 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 Fatuha P.S. Case No. 953 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
8. However, the learned trial court, before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioners, shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioners and 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) Kundan/- U T