Sonu Choudhary @ Sonu v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.87315 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-308 Year-2024 Thana- NAUTAN District- West Champaran ====================================================== 1.

Sonu Choudhary @ Sonu son of Amarnath Chaudhary Village -Shivrajpur PS- Nautan District- West Champaran 2.

Sujit Chaudhary @ Sanjeet son of Amarnath Chaudhary Village -Shivrajpur PS- Nautan District- West Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ramchandra Sahni, Adv For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Rajendra Nath Jha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 28-02-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 191(2), 190, 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 109, 121 (1), 121 (2), 132 of BNS and Section 45 of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that on secret information, police team raided the vegetable field and found illegal liquor concealed under the straw. Accordingly, the liquor was seized when villagers arrived and attacked the police force with lathi-danda, on account of which the informant and his team got injured, further alleges that the mob even tried to snatch the mobile and official pistol of the force.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.87315 of 2024(2) dt.28-02-2025 2/2

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners have been falsely implicated in the instant case with general and omnibus allegation. It is next submitted that petitioners are not named in the FIR. It is next submitted that since the petitioners stay nearby to the place of occurrence, as such, they also came to be implicated in the instant case.

5. Learned APP opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their 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. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten 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 Nautan P.S. Case No. 308 of 2024 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) kiran/- U T