Santosh Rai @ Santosh Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.53906 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-337 Year-2021 Thana- AMNAUR District- Saran ====================================================== Santosh Rai @ Santosh Kumar, S/O Baharan Rai R/O Village- Shekhpura, P.S.- Amnour, District- Saran ... ... Petitioner/S

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Dhananjay Mishra For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Khurshid Anwar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 17-10-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 272 and 273 of the I.P.C. and Section 30(a) of the Excise Act. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 150 litres of liquor kept in a sack from villageSheikhpura. The 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 also submitted that he came to be implicated at the instance of Chaukidar with whom he is on an inimical term.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.53906 of 2022(2) dt.17-10-2022 2/2 The learned Additional Public Prosecutor opposes the anticipatory bail application.

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 Court below within a period of six weeks from today, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs. 1,000/- (Rupees One Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court below where the case is pending in connection with Amnour P. S. Case No.337 of 2021, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T