Ajay Kumar Mandal v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.64963 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-84 Year-2024 Thana- KURSAILA District- Katihar ====================================================== Ajay Kumar Mandal S/o- Sakal Mandal R/o- Kursela Basti, P.S- Kursela, Dist- Katihar ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Ms. Veena Kumari Jaiswal, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 09-09-2024

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 Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2018.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of two cases.

4. Allegation is of recovery of 80 litres of liquor from a gallon who allegedly thrown by the petitioner.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner nor he has any concern with the alleged gallon. It is further submitted that petitioner came to be implicated at the instance of the Chawkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is next submitted that once

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.64963 of 2024(2) dt.09-09-2024 2/2 an accused is implicated in a case relating to excise, the police start implicating mechanically.

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

7. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, let 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 court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Kursela P.S. Case No. 84 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

8. However, the learned trial court, before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner, shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more than two cases in that event the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T