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Ram Singh @ Sri Ram Singh v. The State of Bihar

Patna HC21 Sept 2024CR. MISC./68490/2024

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Patna High Court granted anticipatory bail to the petitioner in a Bihar Excise Act and IPC case involving liquor recovery. The court directed surrender within six weeks, furnishing bail bonds with sureties, and reserved the final implementation on verifying criminal antecedents.

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Released on anticipatory bail upon surrender within six weeks, furnishing Rs. 25,000/- with two sureties of similar amount.

Ram Singh @ Sri Ram Singh Vs The State of Bihar — Narcotics (NDPS) | Patna HC (2024)

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.68490 of 2024

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Arising Out of PS. Case No.-75 Year-2024 Thana- LAKHNAUR District- Madhubani

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====================================================== Ram Singh @ Sri Ram Singh S/o Late Arun Singh RESIDENT OF VILLAGE- DAIYAKHARWAR, P.S- LAKHNAUR, DISTRICTMADHUBANI

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar

... ... Opposite Party/s

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====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Subhash Kumar Jha For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Nand Kumar ======================================================

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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER

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2 21-09-2024

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1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

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2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act and Sections 272 and 273 of the Indian Penal Code.

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3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of five cases and allegation is of recovery of 9 litres of liquor from the garden of the petitioner.

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4. 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 after the amendment in the Excise Act in the year 2018, the concept of deemed possession and presumed offender has been done away with. It is next submitted that he came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.68490 of 2024(2) dt.21-09-2024 2/2

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with whom he is on an inimical term.

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5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

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6. 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. 25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five 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 Lakhnaur P.S. Case No. 75 of 2024 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

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7. 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 more than five cases, in that event, the present anticipatory bail order shall not be given effect to.

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(Satyavrat Verma, J)

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SUMIT/-

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Ram Singh @ Sri Ram Singh v. The State of Bihar

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