Balkesh Shikari v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.57906 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-175 Year-2022 Thana- DEO District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Balkesh Shikari, Son Of Ram Sundar Shikari R/O Village- Pasiya Bhandari, P.S.- Deo, District- Aurangabad ... ... Petitioner/S

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Ms. Rupa Kumari For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Bishweshwar Ram ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 09-11-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Excise Act, 2018.

The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 96 litres of liquor from an auto. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession. It is also submitted that he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Baithnath Pasi in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value. It is also submitted that petitioner is neither

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.57906 of 2022(2) dt.09-11-2022 2/2 the owner, nor the driver of the vehicle.

Learned A.P.P. opposes the bail application.

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. 1,000/- (Rupees One Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court below where the case is pending in connection with Deo P. S. Case No.175 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