Sujeet Sahni v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.71202 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-789 Year-2022 Thana- HAJIPUR SADAR District- Vaishali ====================================================== SUJEET SAHNI SON OF SHRI RAGHUNATH SAHNI R/O VILLAGETHATHAN BUZURG, P.S.- HAJIPUR SADAR, DISTRICT- VAISHALI ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Arvind Kumar Pandey, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 23-12-2022 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 360 liters of liquor from the petitioner's house. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, it is next submitted that he came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone when, admittedly, petitioner is a person with clean antecedent, it

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.71202 of 2022(2) dt.23-12-2022 2/2 is also submitted that the house is a joint family property and, as such, petitioner was completely unaware that who had kept the liquor in the house, it is also submitted that no prudent person would use his own house for committing a crime and thus create evidence against himself.

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) eacsh 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 Hajipur Sadar P.S. Case No. 789 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) HarshPandey/- U T