Navin Kumar @ Navin Kumar Singh @ Navin Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.67587 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-318 Year-2022 Thana- JANDAHA District- Vaishali ====================================================== NAVIN KUMAR @ NAVIN KUMAR SINGH @ NAVIN SINGH S/O BAIDNATH SINGH Resident of Village- Narharpur, P.S.- Jandaha, DistrictVaishali. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Ajay Kumar No. 2, 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 414 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 30(a), 36 and 41(i) 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 1022.55 liters liquor from Indrajeet Sahni's house, Bolero pickup and three motorcycles.

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 based on the confessional statement of Indrajeet

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.67587 of 2022(2) dt.09-12-2022 2/2 Sahni which does not have any evidentiary value, it is also submitted that petitioner has no concern with the alleged vehicle, i.e., he is neither the owner nor the driver of the 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. 5,000/- (Rupees FiveThousand) 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 Jandaha P.S. Case No. 318 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 the petitioner has got criminal antecedent even of one case, then the present anticipatory bail order shall not be acted upon.

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