Vikash Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.59637 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-153 Year-2021 Thana- PARWALPUR District- Nalanda ====================================================== Vikash Kumar, S/O Kosha Gope @ Kusha Gope R/O Village- Atabal Chak, P.S- Tharthari, Dist- Nalanda.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Rajeev Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Sucheta Yadav ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 20-08-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a) and 44 of the Excise Act.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of one case and the allegation is of recovery of 25 litres of liquor from a motorcycle.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that 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 and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Aman Kumar in police custody, which does not have any evidentiary value.

5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.59637 of 2024(2) dt.20-08-2024 2/2 application.

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 Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs. 5,000/- (Rupees Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned IVth Additional Sessions Judge-cumSpecial Excise Court No.II, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection with Parwalpur P. S. Case No.153 of 2021, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

8. It is made clear that the learned trial Court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more than one case, in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T