Man Mohan Singh @ Mani Mohan Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.56827 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-298 Year-2022 Thana- PATNA GRP CASE District- Patna ====================================================== 1.

Man Mohan Singh @ Mani Mohan Singh, Son Of Nand Kumar Singh Resident Of M.I.G. - 124 Hanuman Nagar, P.S- Patrakar Nagar, Dist- Patna 2.

Raju Kumar, Son Of Late Moti Prasad Singh Resident Of Khemanichak , Adarsh Coloney Road No. 4, P.S- Ram Krishna Nagar, Dist- Patna 3.

Sinku Devi, Wife Of Gopal Singh @ Gopal Kumar Singh @ Manish Kumar Rana Residentof Kasya Complex No. B/03, Main Road No. 4, P.S- Ram Krishna Nagar, Dist- Patna ... ... Petitioner/S

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ravi Shankar Roy For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Damodar Prasad Tiwary ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 04-11-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State through video conferencing. The petitioners seek bail in anticipation of their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Excise Act, 2018.

The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 276.480 litres of liquor from a place in front of Parcel Office at Patna Junction.

The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners were not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.56827 of 2022(2) dt.04-11-2022 2/2 recovered from their conscious possession. It is further alleged submitted that the alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large and they came to be implicated based on information received to the police by the Parcel Office of the Railways. It is next submitted that it appears that the police in order to save the real culprits falsely implicated the petitioners, who admittedly are persons with clean antecedent. Learned A.P.P. opposes the bail application.

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 Court below within a period of six weeks, are directed to be released on bail on their furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs. 1,000/- (Rupees One Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court below where the case is pending in connection with Rail Patna Junction P. S. Case No.298 of 2022, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T