Ranjeet Gupta @ Ranjeet Kumar Gupta v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.64371 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-187 Year-2021 Thana- MOTIPUR District- Muzaffarpur ====================================================== RANJEET GUPTA @ RANJEET KUMAR GUPTA S/o Ganesh Sah R/vJiwdhara, Pipra Kothi, P.S.- Pipra Kothi, District- East Champaran (Motihari) ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Ms. Sharda Kumari, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 02-12-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State through virtual Court proceedings. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 272, 273, 467, 468, 120(B) and 34 of the Indian Penal Code read with Sections 30(a) and 41(1)(2) of the Bihar Excise Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 5940 litres spirit from a truck.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated at the instance of officials of the Excise Department, it is next submitted that petitioner is neither the owner nor the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.64371 of 2022(2) dt.02-12-2022 2/2 driver of the alleged truck, it is also submitted that petitioner admittedly is a person with clear antecedent and the excise officials in order to save the real culprits have falsely implicated him in the present case.

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

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. 1,000/- (Rupees One 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 Motipur P.S. Case No. 187 of 2021 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi/- U T