Janjir Chaudhary v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.43420 of 2017 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-112 Year-2017 Thana- BARBIGHA District- Sheikhpura ====================================================== Janjir Chaudhary S/o Bhola Chaudhary R/o Narayanpur, P.S. Barbigha, District Sheikhpura.

... ... Petitioner

Versus

The State of Bihar.

... ... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Dinkar Kumar, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 19-09-2017 Heard Sri Dinkar Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Addl. Public Prosecutor.

The sole petitioner, who is in custody since 23.08.2017 in Excise Case No.310/2017 arising out of Barbigha P.S. Case No.112/2017 registered for the offence under Sections 420/414/409/467/468/471/272/273/188 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 30 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act,2016, has prayed for grant of bail.

It was submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that nothing was recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner, rather recovery of about 20 liters of country made liquor was affected from Narayanpur Khandha and the petitioner was made accused. He submits that immediately after noticing that the petitioner was made accused, he suo motu

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43420 of 2017(2) dt.19-09-2017 2/2 surrendered on 23.08.2017 and since then he is in custody. Learned counsel for the petitioner has drawn my attention to the statement made in paragraph-3 of the petition to show that the petitioner is having clean antecedent.

Considering the nature of accusation, clean antecedent as well as period of custody, let the petitioner, namely, Janjir Chaudhary be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-( ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned 1st Addl. District & Sessions Judge, Sheikhpura in connection with Excise Case No.310/2017 arising out of Barbigha P.S. Case No.112/2017 (Rakesh Kumar, J) nawalkrs/- U T