Manu Rawani @ Abhimanyu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.70908 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-494 Year-2022 Thana- MADANPUR District- Aurangabad ====================================================== MANU RAWANI @ ABHIMANYU KUMAR S/o Birendra Rawani @ Bijendra Prasad R/o Village- Ghattrain, P.S.- Madanpur, DisttAurangabad(Bihar). ... ... Petitioner/s

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Parmanand Prasad, APP ====================================================== 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 30 litres of liquor from a place near Devi Asthan of village Ghatrain.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, it is next submitted that even alleged recovery is from a place which is

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.70908 of 2022(2) dt.20-12-2022 2/2 accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical terms. 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) with two sureties of the like amount to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Madanpur P.S. Case No. 494 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

Learned trial court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify his criminal antecedent and if it is found that the petitioner has antecedent even of a single case, then the present anticipatory bail order shall not be acted upon. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Shivam/- U T