Saroj Kumar Singh @ Saroj Singh v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.64059 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-338 Year-2024 Thana- SAHEBGANJ District- Muzaffarpur ====================================================== Saroj Kumar Singh @ Saroj Singh Son of Lalan Prasad @ Lalan Prasad Singh @ Lalan Resident of Village - Balthi, Balthi Narsing, P.S. - Rajepur, District - Muzaffarpur ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Yugal Kishore For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Md. Aslam Ansari ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 04-09-2024
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 offence punishable under Sections 147, 148, 149, 341, 323, 307, 353, 332, 333, 427, 504, 506 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2022.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 24.36 litres of liquor from a place behind the house of Amrendra Singh. It is next submitted that the police accordingly reached the place of occurrence and apprehended Amrendra Singh but a mob of 25-30 people gathered, led by
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.64059 of 2024(2) dt.04-09-2024 2/3 Ashok Singh had attacked the police force causing injury and also damaged the police vehicle and freed Amrendra from the police custody.
4. The learned counsel submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that it absolutely does not stand to reason that how the chowkidar identified the petitioner when the petitioner was not known to him. It is also submitted that there is no specific allegation of assault against the petitioner.
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 Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees ten 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 Sahebganj P.S. Case No.338/2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
6. It is made clear that the learned trial court before
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.64059 of 2024(2) dt.04-09-2024 3/3 accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedents 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 to.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T