Ashok Paswan v. The State of Bihar Bihar
Case at a glance
Provisions considered
- Bihar Excise Act s. 30(a)
- 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. Gajendra Kumar Singh, Advocate Mr. Dashrath Mehta, APP ORAL ORDER 2 06-12-2024
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 335 litres of liquor from a place near bank of a river.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large. It is next submitted that he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Ganesh Sao in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value, when admittedly Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.77691 of 2024(2) dt.06-12-2024 petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.
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. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Jehanabad P.S. Case No. 21 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
It is made clear that the learned trial court before accepting the bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that the petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to. SUMIT/- U T (Satyavrat Verma, J)
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