Rajeev Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.23802 of 2018 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-210 Year-2017 Thana- SAKRA District- Muzaffarpur ====================================================== Rajeev Kumar, son of Raj Kumar Chaudhary, resident of village -Baji, P.S. Sakra, District- Muzaffarpur.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar.

... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Sri Alok Kumar Alok For the Opposite Party/s :

Sri Jai Narain Thakur, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 23-04-2018 Heard Sri Alok Kumar Alok , learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor. The sole petitioner, apprehending his arrest in connection with Sakra P.S. Case No. 210 of 2017, registered for the offence under Section 272/273 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016, has prayed for grant of bail in the event of his arrest or surrender.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that on secret information a raid was conducted in the house of one Dayashankar Singh and from his house huge quantity of Indian make foreign liquor was recovered. He submits that petitioner has been made accused on the basis of confessional statement of the co-accused Dayashankar Singh. Beyond confessional

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23802 of 2018(2) dt.23-04-2018 2/2 statement there is no other evidence against the petitioner. Besides this, it has been argued by way of referring to the statement made in paragraph no. 3 of the petition that petitioner is having clean antecedent.

Considering the fact that petitioner's name has come in the confessional statement of the co-accused as well as clean antecedent of the petitioner , in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, let the petitioner Rajeev Kumar be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- ( rupees ten thousand ) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Special Judge ( Excise Act), Muzaffarpur / concerned court in connection with Sakra P.S. Case No. 210 of 2017 subject to the conditions as contemplated under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

(Rakesh Kumar, J) praful/- U T