Hare Ram Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.22400 of 2017 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -150 Year- 2014 Thana -AURANGABAD TOWN DistrictAURANGABAD ======================================================

1. Hare Ram Singh Son of Late Binda Singh, Resident of Village- Atpa, Police Station- Chauri, District- Bhojpur.

.... .... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Prabhu Narayan Sharma For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Sri Zainul Abedin ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. NILU AGRAWAL ORAL ORDER 18-08-2017 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

Petitioner is languishing in judicial custody since01.03.2017 in connection with Aurangabad Town P.S. Case No. 150 of 2014, G.R. No. 823 of 2014 for offences punishable under Sections 406, 407 and 420/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The prosecution case, as lodged by the informant Vikash Kumar Singh, is that he is looking after the transportation work of M/s Mahalakshmi Transport Agency, Patna. On 21.04.2014 at 7.00 am. while he was sitting, the petitioner along with three other accused persons came to his transport company and loaded goods of one Santosh Kumar Dev in a truck bearing

Registration No. MP07G - 7107 for destination to Kolkata but the said truck did not reach the said destination hence, goods worth 4,32,000/- has been fraudulently taken away by the petitioner and other accused persons.

It has been submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that he is innocent, and has been falsely implicated in the aforesaid case. The petitioner was just a broker, the said truck neither belongs to the petitioner nor to the informant but it belongs to one Amrit Lal Singh and registration number of truck is of Madhya Pradesh. He further submits that charge-sheet has already been submitted and hence, there is no chance of tampering with the prosecution witnesses.

However, learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for bail.

Considering the facts and circumstances and the materials on record, let petitioner, above named, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned C.J.M., Aurangabad, in connection with Aurangabad Town P.S. Case No. 150/2014, G.R. No. 823 of 2014 subject to the condition that one of the bailors would be a close relative of the petitioner having sufficient immovable property within the jurisdiction of the

concerned police station, who will file an affidavit stating his relationship with the petitioner and that petitioner will appear before the learned court below during trial as and when required and failure to appear on two consecutive dates without assigning any reason will entail cancellation of his bail bonds. (Nilu Agrawal, J) sushma/- U T