Rajeev Mandal v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.56326 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-161 Year-2024 Thana- JHAJHA District- Jamui ====================================================== 1.

Rajeev Mandal S/o Janardhan Mandal 2.

Uma Shankar Mandal S/o Harishankar Gandharva 3.

Shiv Shankar Kumar S/o Hari Kishor Gandharva 4.

Niranjan Kumar Mandal S/o Dukhi Mandal 5.

Abhishek Kumar S/o Ashok Mandal All are R/o Village-Budhikar, P.S.- Jhajha, District- Jamui ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Prabhat Ranjan Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Dr. Kumar Uday Pratap, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 25-09-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehends their arrest in connection with Jhajha P.S. Case No.161 of 2024 instituted under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act and under Sections 66(C) & 66(E) of IT Act, 2000.

3. As per the prosecution case, the accused persons including the petitioners consumed illicit alcohol and abused the informants and made the video of the entire occurrence and on the next date, also threatened the informant with dire consequences.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.56326 of 2024(3) dt.25-09-2024 2/2 petitioners are innocent and have been falsely implicated in this case due to village politics. There is no material against the petitioners. The petitioners have neither made any video clip nor uploaded any video on Instagram as alleged. The petitioners have no criminal antecedent and they undertake to co-operate in the investigation and the trial.

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

6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount to each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Excise Court-I, Jamui in connection with Jhajha P.S. Case No.161 of 2024, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

(Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) durgesh/- U T