Guddu Lal Dev @ Guddu Dev @ Manoj Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.67600 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-248 Year-2022 Thana- KEWATI District- Darbhanga ====================================================== GUDDU LAL DEV @ GUDDU DEV @ MANOJ KUMAR S/O Mahendra Lal Dev R/O Village- Shivram Darbhanga, P.S- Darbhanga Town, DistrictDarbhanga ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Manoj Kumar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 09-12-2022 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 Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of five cases and allegation is of recovery of 180 liters liquor from a Hyundai car. 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 implicated based on the confessional statement of one Pradeep Kumar which does not have any evidentiary value, it is further

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.67600 of 2022(2) dt.09-12-2022 2/2 submitted that petitioner is 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 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 trial court 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) 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 Kewati P.S. Case No. 248 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

The learned trial court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify his criminal antecedents and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has criminal antecedent of more than five cases, then the present anticipatory bail order shall not be acted upon.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishi/Shubham/- U T