Raju Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.60759 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-52 Year-2024 Thana- YADOPUR District- Gopalganj ====================================================== 1.

Raju Yadav Son of Ambika Yadav R/V- Village-Baluwan Sagar, PSBishambharpur, District- Gopalganj 2.

Amir Yadav Son of Mukhdev Yadav R/V- Village-Baluwan Sagar, PSBishambharpur, District- Gopalganj ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Devashish Giri For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Chandra Sen Prasad Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 22-08-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 388.8 liters of liquor from the bank of Soti river.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners were not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is also submitted that at times police resorts to secret

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.60759 of 2024(2) dt.22-08-2024 2/2 information in order to save the real culprits, when petitioners admittedly are persons with clean antecedent.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their 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) each 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 Yadopur P.S. Case No. 52 of 2024 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. However, it is made clear the learned Trial Court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioners shall verify their criminal antecedent and in the event if it is found that any of the petitioners have antecedent of even one case in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T