Manoj Rai @ Manoj Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.53023 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-402 Year-2021 Thana- LALGANJ District- Vaishali ====================================================== MANOJ RAI @ MANOJ KUMAR S/o Rajendra Rai R/o village- Salempur, P.S.- Lalganj, District- Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shyameshwar Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Nirmal Kumar Sinha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 14-10-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State through virtual Court proceedings. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 60 litres liquor from a field in Salempur diyara in a liquor furnace.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, it is further submitted that the alleged furnace does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be implicated based on a secret

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.53023 of 2022(2) dt.14-10-2022 2/2 information which is the easiest way to implicate an innocent person like the petitioner who is a person with clean antecedent. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

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, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 1,000/- (Rupees One Thousand) 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 Lalganj P.S. Case No. 402 of 2021 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

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