Vivek Singh @ Aman Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.82584 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-332 Year-2024 Thana- BELDOUR District- Khagaria ====================================================== 1.
Vivek Singh @ Aman Kumar Son of Lalan Singh @ Lalan Kumar Singh Village- Pachath, P.S.- Beldaur, Distt.- Khagaria 2.
Navin Kumar @ Navin Yadav @ Kumar Ambedkaram Son of Beni Yadav Village- Naradpur, P.S.- Beldaur, Distt.- Khagaria ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar Patna ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Adv.
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Pushpa Sinha, APP.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 11-12-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2018.
3. Altogether 15 litres of foreign liquor has been recovered from the bag which was carried by the apprehended co-accused, namely, Pankaj Sahni, who disclosed the name of the petitioners.
4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners are quite innocent and have committed no offence. No incriminating article has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioners or from their house.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.82584 of 2024(2) dt.11-12-2024 2/3 They have no concern either with the seized liquor or the place of recovery or any trade of liquor or the seized vehicle. The allegation levelled against the petitioners is totally false and based on concocted facts. They were not apprehended on the spot. There is nothing on record to indicate the complicity of the petitioners barring the confessional statement of the apprehended person which has no evidentiary value in the eye of law. Learned counsel further submits that petitioner no.1 has no criminal antecedent, whereas petitioner no.2 has two criminal antecedents as mentioned in para 3 of the bail application.
5. Petitioners are agreed to deposit a sum of Rs. 5,000.00 (Rupees Five Thousand) each in account of Mahavir Cancer Sansthan, Patna bearing Account No. 3332964762, IFSC Code: CBIN0282779, MICR Code: 800016018, Central Bank of India, Chitkohra Branch, Patna.
6. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioners, be released on bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court below where the case is pending/successor Court in connection with Beldaur P.S. Case No. 332 of 2024, subject to
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.82584 of 2024(2) dt.11-12-2024 3/3 the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS, 2023, subject to the further conditions that
(1) That one of the bailors will be a close relative of the petitioner, who will give an affidavit giving genealogy as to how he is related with the petitioner. He will also undertake to inform the Court if there is any change in the address of the petitioner.
(2) That the bailor shall also state on affidavit that he will inform the Court concerned if the petitioner is implicated in any other case of similar nature after his release in the present case and thereafter the Court below will be at liberty to initiate proceeding for cancellation of bail on the ground of misuse.
7. The bail bonds of the petitioners shall be accepted by the learned Court below on showing receipt of deposit of the aforesaid amount in Mahavir Cancer Sansthan, Patna. (Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) divyanshi/- U T