Teju Nat v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.69758 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-648 Year-2022 Thana- KOILWAR District- Bhojpur ====================================================== TEJU NAT SON OF WAKIL NUT RESIDENT OF VILLAGE- LALLAN JI KE DERA, P.S.- BIRAMPUR, DISTRICT- BHOJPUR ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Rajani Ranjan Pd. Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Manoj Kumar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 19-12-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 60 liters of liquor from a motorcycle. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and came to be implicated merely because he is the owner of the motorcycle, it is next submitted that no prudent man would use his own vehicle for committing a crime and thus create evidence against himself, it is further submitted that petitioner was completely

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.69758 of 2022(2) dt.19-12-2022 2/2 unaware that his friend would misuse the vehicle for illicit purpose.

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. 1,000/- (Rupees One Thousand) each 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 Koilwar P.S. Case No. 648 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

Further, the learned trial Court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has any criminal antecedent then the present anticipatory bail order shall not be acted upon.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) GauravSinha/- U T