Ram Shreshth Mahto v. The State of Bihar

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : For the Opposite Party/s : ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA Mr.Virendra Kumar Mr.Satyendra Narayan Singh ORAL ORDER 2 05-10-2024

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.

The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 558 litres of liquor from a bamboo orchard of the petitioner.

The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and the bamboo orchard is a place outside the house and is accessible to villagers at large. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.72947 of 2024(2) dt.05-10-2024 his own field for committing a crime and thus, would create evidence against himself and hence, would get implicated. It is also submitted that it appears that someone inimical to the petitioner and his family planted the liquor with a view to implicate him and his family members, when admittedly petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and he came to be implicated based on secret information, which is the easiest way to implicate someone,

Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail application.

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, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Excise Court-02, Sitamarhi in connection with Sitamarhi P. S. Case No.752 of 2023, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

It is made clear that the learned trial Court before Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.72947 of 2024(2) dt.05-10-2024 accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to. vikash/- U T (Satyavrat Verma, J)