CHHOTU MAHTO v. The State of Bihar

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : For the Opposite Party/s : ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA Mr. Bhavesh Kumar Sah, Advocate Mr .Md. Iftekhar Mahmood, APP ORAL ORDER 2 08-07-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State through virtual Court proceedings. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 272, 273 of the I.P.C. read with Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of two cases and allegation is of recovery of 116.4 litre of liquor from a mango orchard. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, it is next submitted that the mango orchard does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be falsely implicated at the instance of the owner of the mango orchard by the local people on account Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.10197 of 2022(2) dt.08-07-2022 of his antecedents. 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. 5,000/- (Rupees Five Thousand) each 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 Khajauli P.S. Case No. 203 of 2021 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. Shivam/- U T (Satyavrat Verma, J)