Patna High CourtCR. MISC./66739/2024bail granted

Akhilesh Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

2024-09-13Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma3 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.66739 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-541 Year-2023 Thana- GURUA District- Gaya ====================================================== Akhilesh Yadav, S/O- Dawarika Yadav Village- Jainagar Ps- Gurua DistGaya ... ... Petitioner/S

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Sunil Kumar Yadav For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms.Veena Kumari Jaiswal ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 13-09-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and 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 Excise Act.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 50 litres of liquor from foothills of Chalho hills.

4. The 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 alleged recovery is from a place, which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.66739 of 2024(2) dt.13-09-2024 2/3 at the instance of Chaukidar. It is next submitted that police in majority of cases implicating innocent persons either at the behest of Chaukidar, local person, secret informant and confessional statement in a mechanical manner without holding proper investigation, when admittedly petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

5. Learned A.P.P. 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 Exclusive Special Excise Court No.V, Gaya in connection with Gurua P. S. Case No.541 of 2023, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

8. 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

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.66739 of 2024(2) dt.13-09-2024 3/3 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) vikash/- U T