AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No. 71462 of 2022 · Patna High Court

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : For the Opposite Party/s : ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA Mr. Surya Narayan Roy, Advocate Mr. Kalyan Shankar, A.P.P. ORAL ORDER 2 23-12-2022 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 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 6 liters of liquor from the hut of petitioner and Kewal Sahni and 5 liters of liquor from a motorcycle. 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 petitioner is neither the owner nor the driver of Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.71462 of 2022(2) dt.23-12-2022 the alleged seized vehicle. 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) each 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 Government Official Comp. P.S. Case No. 353 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. The learned trial court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify his criminal antecedents and if it is found that the petitioner has antecedent even of a single case, then the present anticipatory bail order shall not be acted upon. HarshPandey/- U T (Satyavrat Verma, J)