Ravi Ranjan Yadav @ Jhudu Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.70639 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-441 Year-2022 Thana- JAGDISHPUR District- Bhojpur ====================================================== RAVI RANJAN YADAV @ JHUDU YADAV S/o Bali Yadav @ Baliram Singh R/o Village- Aanar, P.S.- Bihiya, Distt- Bhojpur. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Humayou Ahmad Khan, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 20-12-2022 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 Section 30(a) 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 300 liters of liquor from a Bolero vehicle. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, it is next submitted that he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Mangal Kumar in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value. It is also submitted that petitioner is neither

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.70639 of 2022(2) dt.20-12-2022 2/2 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. 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 Jagdishpur P.S. Case No. 441 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 shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even a single case then the present anticipatory bail order shall not be acted upon.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T