Shravan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.85003 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-6 Year-2024 Thana- AMJOR District- Rohtas ====================================================== SHRAVAN KUMAR Son of Late Gopal Paswan @ Gopal Prasad RESIDENT OF VILL- TELKAP, P.S- ROHTAS, DISTT- ROHTAS ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Rajesh Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Kumar Ranjit Ranjan ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 07-01-2025
1. Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. This application, for grant of anticipatory bail, arises out of Amjhor Police Station Case No. 06 of 2024, dated 03.09.2024, disclosing offence under Section 30 (a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.
3. The prosecution case, as per the First Information Report, is that the police, on secret information, intercepted one pick up van and on seeing the police, the driver of the said vehicle fled away leaving behind the pick up van. The police seized the pick up van and recovered about 10 litres of illicit country made liquor from the pick up van kept under the seat of the driver.
4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.85003 of 2024(2) dt.07-01-2025 2/3 petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. He further submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent of similar nature of offence and he has been made accused in this case merely because he happens to be the registered owner of the pick up van, in question. He further submits that he had no knowledge that illicit liquor was being transported by the driver in the pick up van.
5. Regards being had to the submission advanced on behalf of the parties concerned and taking into consideration the fact that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent of similar nature of offence and he has been made accused in this case merely because he happens to be the registered owner of the seized pick up van, which was being driven by the driver, I am inclined to grant the petitioner privilege of anticipatory bail.
6. This application is, accordingly, allowed.
7. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of four weeks from today, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.85003 of 2024(2) dt.07-01-2025 3/3 Exclusive Special Excise Court No. II, Rohtas, at Sasaram, in connection with Amjhor Police Station Case No. 06 of 2024, subject to the condition laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. (Anil Kumar Sinha, J.) Prabhakar Anand/- U √ T √