Ram Pravesh Paswan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.65618 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-180 Year-2024 Thana- PATEPUR District- Vaishali ====================================================== Ram Pravesh Paswan Son of Naulakh Paswan R/o Village- Mandai Dih, P.S.- Patepur, District- Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Satish Kumar Sinha For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms. Pushpa Sinha.1 ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 23-09-2024

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

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a), 32(ii) and 41(i) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of three cases and allegation is of recovery of 774 liters of liquor from two vehicles.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of any of the seized vehicles and he came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar, but then it is submitted that police in majority of the cases implicates accused persons either at the instance of Chowkidar, local person, secret information or confessional statement in a mechanical manner without holding a proper investigation. It is also submitted that if the Chowkidar was

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65618 of 2024(2) dt.23-09-2024 2/2 aware of the involvement of the petitioner in the occurrence then why he did not inform the police prior to institution of the instant FIR which casts an aspersion on the case of the prosecution.

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

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 trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand) 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 Patepur P.S. Case No. 180 of 2024 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. However, 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 more than three cases in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T