Ramjatan Ram v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.65357 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-177 Year-2024 Thana- SIDHWALIYA District- Gopalganj ====================================================== Ramjatan Ram Son of Late Kumari Ram Resident of Village- Bucheya Ward No. 08, P.S.- Sidhvaliya, District- Gopalganj ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Sushil Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Shantanu Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 10-09-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act in connection with Sidhwaliya P.S. Case No.177 of 2024.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 40 liters of liquor from a place in front of the house of the petitioner and 45 liters of liquor from a place in front of the house of Jai Prakash Thakur.

4. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner, but then is adjacent to his

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65357 of 2024(2) dt.10-09-2024 2/3 house and he came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar, but then police in majority of the cases implicates either at the instance of the 'Chowkidar', local person, secret information or confessional statement in a mechanical manner without holding proper investigation, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.

5. The learned APP for the State opposes the anticipatory bail 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.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional District and Sessions Judge-XIII-cum-Special Judge, Excise-I, Gopalganj in connection with Sidhwaliya P.S. Case No.177 of 2024, subject to the conditions 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 antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65357 of 2024(2) dt.10-09-2024 3/3 event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect.

8. The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Prakash Narayan U T