Ravindra Kumar Singh @ Lallu v. The State Of Bihar

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : For the Opposite Party/s : ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA Mr. Ravi Shankar Singh Mr. Anand Kishore Choudhary ORAL ORDER 2 08-08-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Excise Act, 2018. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 21 litre of liquor from petitioner’s house. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession. It is next submitted that the house is a joint family property, as such, it cannot be alleged with certainty that it was the petitioner, who had kept the liquor in the house. It is also submitted that he was falsely Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.23534 of 2022(2) dt.08-08-2022 implicated by the local Chandan with whom, he is on an inimical term. Learned A.P.P. opposes the bail application. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and the fact that the petitioner is a man of clean antecedent, the petitioner, above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs. 2,000/- (Rupees Two Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court below where the case is pending in connection with Muffasil P. S. Case No.72 of 2022, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The application stands allowed. (Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T