AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No. 54761 of 2023 · Patna High Court

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : For the Opposite Party/s : ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA Mr. Shama Sinha Mr. Suresh Prasad Singh ORAL ORDER 2 24-08-2023

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 Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 609.900 liters of liquor from a sack.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated based on suspicion when he is not even named in the FIR and the alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.54761 of 2023(2) dt.24-08-2023 to public at large and does not belong to the petitioner.

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 trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 1,000/- (Rupees One Thousand) 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 Vishwavidyalaya P.S. Case No. 153 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. HarshPandey/- U T (Satyavrat Verma, J)