Chhote Manjhi @ Chhotu Manjhi @ Deepak Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.71610 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-356 Year-2024 Thana- JAHANABAD District- Jehanabad ====================================================== Chhote Manjhi @ Chhotu Manjhi @ Deepak Manjhi Son of Late Lalan Manjhi Resident Of Village -Sukhanandan Chak, Amiya Bigha, Mushari, PSJehanabad, (Sikariya OP), Distt.- Jehanabad ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Nityanand Neeraj For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Mukesh Kumar Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 01-10-2024 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 offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of two cases and allegation is of recovery of 10 litres of liquor from house of the petitioner. 4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and after the amendment in the Excise Act in the year 2018, the concept of deemed possession and presumed offender has been done away

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.71610 of 2024(2) dt.01-10-2024 2/3 with. It is next submitted that the house in question is a joint family property as such it cannot be alleged with certainty that it was petitioner who had kept the liquor in the house or the liquor kept in the house was within knowledge of the petitioner. It is next submitted that he came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. 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 trial court 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 Jehanabad Town P.S. Case No. 356 of 2024 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

7.

It is made clear that the learned trial court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that the petitioner has antecedent of even one case/ has

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.71610 of 2024(2) dt.01-10-2024 3/3 antecedent of more than two cases, in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to. (Satyavrat Verma, J) SUMIT/- U T