Kunal Singh @ Kunal Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.65892 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-206 Year-2022 Thana- GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL COMP. District- Begusarai ====================================================== 1.

KUNAL SINGH @ KUNAL KUMAR S/O Ranjan Singh R/O Village- Bari Aghu, Ward No-45, P.S- Muffasil, District- Begusarai 2.

Bishal Singh @ Vishal Kumar S/O Ranjan Singh R/O Village- Bari Aghu, Ward No-45, P.S- Muffasil, District- Begusarai 3.

Shilpu Singh @ Kari @ Shilpu Kumar S/O Roushan Singh R/O VillageBari Aghu, Ward No-45, P.S- Muffasil, District- Begusarai ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Madan Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 06-12-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner nos. 1 and 2 have antecedent of 13 cases and petitioner no. 3 has antecedent of three cases and allegation is of recovery of 255.600 litres liquor from a Scorpio vehicle. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners were not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their conscious possession, it is next

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65892 of 2022(2) dt.06-12-2022 2/2 submitted that police in a mechanical manner, because of their antecedents, is implicating the petitioners in cases after cases relating to liquor, it is also submitted that in the present case the petitioners have been implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone, further the petitioners are neither the owner nor the driver of the alleged vehicle.

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

Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their 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. 25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each 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 Excise P.S. Case No. 206 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi/- U T