Pintu Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.57871 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-19 Year-2024 Thana- SAKATPUR District- Darbhanga ====================================================== Pintu Singh son of Vishnudev Singh RESIDENT OF VILLAGE -KAKODHA, POLICE STATION -SAKATPUR, DISTRICT- DARBHANGA ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Nilendu Kumar Choudhary For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Bharat Lal ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 13-08-2024 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 the petitioner has antecedent of nine cases and allegation is of recovery of 520.200 litres of liquor from a bush beside the road in Kokodha village.

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 and even alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large and does not belong to the petitioner. It is next submitted that he

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.57871 of 2024(2) dt.13-08-2024 2/3 came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar. It is further submitted that in majority of the cases, police implicates either at the instance of Chowkidar, local person, secret information or confessional statement without holding a proper investigation and person with criminal antecedents is easy target for being implicated in cases related to excise.

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. 45,000/- (Rupees Forty-five 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 Sakatpur P.S. Case No. 19 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

7.

It is made clear that the learned trial court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that the petitioner has antecedent of more than nine cases,

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.57871 of 2024(2) dt.13-08-2024 3/3 in that event the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) SUMIT/- U T