Prabhash Kumar Choudhary v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.62153 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-42 Year-2023 Thana- MUSRIGHRARI District- Samastipur ====================================================== Prabhash Kumar Choudhary Son of Late Mahendra Narayan Choudhary Resident of Village/Mohallah- Ward No. 15, Barah Patthar, P.S.- Mushrigharari, District- Samastipur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr.Khurshid Anwar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 31-08-2024

1. 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 Musrigharari P.S. Case No.42 of 2023.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 405 liters of liquor from a cowshed near the house of Guddu Mishra.

4. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.62153 of 2024(2) dt.31-08-2024 2/3 from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated based on the fact that the motorcycle which was seized from the place of occurrence belongs to him. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing an occurrence and thus would create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated. It is also submitted that petitioner was completely unaware that his friend would misuse the vehicle in the manner as alleged.

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 Special Judge Excise,Ist, Samastipur in connection with Musrigharari P.S. Case No.42 of 2023, 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

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.62153 of 2024(2) dt.31-08-2024 3/3 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 event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect.

8. The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Prakash Narayan U T