Dharmendra Singh v. The State of Bihar

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : For the Opposite Party/s : ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA Mr. Raushan Raj, Advocate Mr. Suresh Prasad Singh, A.P.P. ORAL ORDER 2 05-03-2024

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 Sections 30, 30(a), 38 and 41 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of two cases.

Allegation is of recovery of 6000 litres of liquor from a truck.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is neither the owner nor the driver of the seized vehicle and came to be implicated in the present case based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is further submitted Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.12553 of 2024(2) dt.05-03-2024 that it appears that the police in order to save the real culprits falsely implicated the petitioner based on secret information because of his antecedent.

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 Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Mashrakh P.S. Case No. 290 of 2017, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T