Patna High Court – Orders
Praveen Kumar Pranav vs The State Of Bihar on 20 May, 2025
Author: Harish Kumar
Bench: Harish Kumar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31084 of 2025
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-35 Year-2018 Thana- DARBHANGA District- Darbhanga
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Praveen Kumar Pranav S/o Sri Ugresh Narayan Sinha @ Ugresh Narain
Sinha R/o Mohalla- Kalidham, West of Basera Engineering, Saidnagar, P.S.-
Bahadurpur, District- Darbhanga
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Manish Kumar No 13
For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Md. Iftekhar Mahmood
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH KUMAR
ORAL ORDER
2 20-05-2025
Heard the parties.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection
with Darbhanga Town P.S. Case No. 35 of 2018, registered for
the offences punishable under Sections 401, 272, 273, 201, 414
of the Indian Penal Code as well as Sections 30(a), 36, 41 of the
Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.
3. The police on a secret information conducted raid
and seized various vehicles including Alto Car bearing
Registration No. BR7J-1073 from which allegedly 18 litres
Indian made foreign liquor was recovered. It is further alleged
that inclusive all other vehicles, altogether 738 litres illicit
country made and foreign liquor was recovered.
4. Learned Advocate for the petitioner primarily
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contended that prior to the alleged occurrence, the Alto Car, in
question, was sold to one Raja Ram Sahni. In support of the
aforesaid contention, photocopy of the Sale Letter and Form 30,
issued by the District Transport Office, Darbhanga, suggesting
the vehicle in question had been sold to one Raja Ram Sahni on
13.01.2018, have been placed on record as Anneuxre-P/4. It is
further submitted that since the vehicle in question had already
been transferred in favour of Raja Ram Sahni, therefore the
petitioner was not knowing with respect to the present case.
However, when the petitioner has received a notice on
12.11.2024 showing the name of the petitioner being implicated
in the case in hand on account of he being the owner of the Alto
Car, he preferred the present application for grant of bail. The
petitioner is man of fair antecedent and he undertakes that he
will fully cooperate in the proceeding of the court. Various other
infirmities have also been referred to in search and seizure.
5. On the other hand, learned Advocate for the State
vehemently opposed the bail application.
6. Considering the materials available on record as
also the submission made by the learned Advocate for the
petitioner that the vehicle in question has already been
transferred in the name of one Raja Ram Sahni prior to the
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alleged occurrence, coupled with the fair antecedent and the
infirmities shown in search and seizure, let the petitioner
abovenamed be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or
surrender before the court below within a period of four weeks
from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order, upon
furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two
sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned
Special Judge-I (Excise Act), Darbhanga in connection with
Darbhanga Town P.S. Case No. 35 of 2018, giving rise to G.O.
Case No. 162 of 2018, subject to the conditions laid down in
Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023,
with the further condition that one of the bailors shall be the
own/close family members of the petitioner.
(Harish Kumar, J)
Anjani/-
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