Runti Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.68452 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-168 Year-2021 Thana- GARDANIBAG District- Patna ====================================================== RUNTI DEVI W/o Baleshwar Ram RESIDENT OF VILLAGE- MITRA MANDAL COLONY, SAKET VIHAR NEAR PARK MOUNT SCHOOL ANISABAD, P.S.- PHULWARISHARIF DISTRICT- PATNA ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Arun Kumar Tiwari, Adv For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Dilip Kumar No.1, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 06-01-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State through virtual Court proceedings. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable u/s 30 (a) and 36 of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2018.

Altogether 360ml of illicit liquor is said to have been recovered from a motorcycle.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is quite innocent and has committed no offence. No incriminating article has been recovered from the conscious physical possession of the petitioner. She has no concern either with the seized liquor or any trade of liquor. She has been falsely implicated in this case at the instance of her enemy. She

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.68452 of 2022(2) dt.06-01-2023 2/3 was not apprehended on the spot and her name transpired in the case only on the basis that she is bonafide owner of the vehicle but the fact is that he had given her vehicle to her neighbour for purchasing medicine for his mother. Petitioner has no criminal antecedent.

Petitioner is agreed to deposit a sum of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) in the PM Cares fund, bearing Account No.2121PM20202, IFSC Code: SBIN 0000691, SWIFT Code: SBININBB104, State Bank of India, New Delhi Main Branch, UPI ID : pmcares@sbi.

Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court below, where the case is pending/Successor court, in connection with Gardanibagh P.S. Case No.168 of 2021, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C, with the following conditions:

(i) That one of the bailors will be a close relative of the petitioner, who will give an affidavit giving genealogy as to

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.68452 of 2022(2) dt.06-01-2023 3/3 how he is related with the petitioner. He will also undertake to inform the Court if there is any change in the address of the petitioner.

(2) The bailor shall also state on affidavit that he will inform the Court concerned if the petitioner is implicated in any other case of similar nature and thereafter the Court below will be at liberty to initiate proceeding for cancellation of anticipatory bail on the ground of misuse.

The bail bond of the petitioner shall be accepted by the learned Court below on showing receipt of deposit of aforesaid in the PM Cares fund.

(Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) shikha/- U T