DABLOO PASWAN @ DABLOO KUMAR v. The State of Bihar
Case at a glance
- Bench
- SATYAVRAT VERMA
Provisions considered
- Bihar Excise Act ss. 30(a), 37(c)
- Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 s. 438(2)
Judgment
====================================================== Appearance : : For the Petitioner/s For the Opposite Party/s : ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA Mr. Ravi Shanker Pankaj, Advocate Mr. Rajendra Prasad Nat, A.P.P. ORAL ORDER 2 19-12-2022 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) and 37(c) of the Bihar Excise Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 30 liters of liquor from a semi constructed road north-west of bypass road. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession, it is next submitted that he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Dhiraj in police custody which does not have any evidentiary Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.70326 of 2022(2) dt.19-12-2022 value. It is also submitted that the alleged recovery is from a place which is accessible to public at large. 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 Sandesh P.S. Case No. 235 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. Further, the learned Trial Court before accepting the bail bonds shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even a single case then the present anticipatory bail order shall not be acted upon. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T
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