Lakhpreet Yadav @ Lakhpreet Kumar @ Karu v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.62072 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-460 Year-2021 Thana- SHERGHATI District- Gaya ====================================================== Lakhpreet Yadav @ Lakhpreet Kumar @ Karu son of Gopi Yadav @ Gofi Yadav village- Kharauna, Ps- Hunterganj, Dist- Chatra Jharkhand ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Vinod Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Bishweshwar Ram ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 16-12-2024 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 and Section 414 of the Indian Penal Code. 3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 20 litres of liquor from a motorcycle, 5 litres of liquor from another motorcycle parked in the house of Mahesh Chaudhary and 5 litres of liquor from a room in the courtyard of the house of the Sudmiya Devi as such total 30 litres of liquor has been recovered. 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 is not the owner of the seized motorcycle nor he has any concern or relation with Mahesh

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.62072 of 2024(3) dt.16-12-2024 2/2 and Sudmiya and he has been implicated in the instant case based on suspicion when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.

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. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Sherghati (Dobhi) P.S. Case No. 460 of 2021, 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 even one case, in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to. (Satyavrat Verma, J) SUMIT/- U T