IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
A.B.A. No.7005 of 2024
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Bikash Kumar @ Vikash Kumar, S/o Madan Saw, R/o village-
Baidh Bigha, P.O. & P.S.-Hariharganj, District-Palamau.
.......... Petitioner.
-Versus-
The State of Jharkhand .......... Opp. Party.
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CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH SHANKAR
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For the Petitioner : Mr. Prashant Kumar Rai, Advocate
For the State : Mr. Someshwar Roy, A.P.P.
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Order No.02 Date: 29.10.2024
1. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection
with Chhatarpur P.S. Case No.77 of 2024 registered under
Sections 272/273/290/414/120B/34 of the Indian Penal
Code, 1860 and Section 47a of the Excise Act, 1915.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the
petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case
and has not committed any offence as alleged in the F.I.R.
The petitioner is the owner-cum-driver of pickup vehicle
bearing registration no.JH-03Z-6026. It has been alleged
that spirit was being loaded on the said pickup vehicle
taken out from the tanker bearing registration no.PB-
65AA-9213. In Fact, the said spirit was being loaded in the
said pickup vehicle as he was engaged on hire basis by the
co-accused-Arvind Yadav for the said purpose. He had no
idea that the spirit being loaded on the said vehicle was
illegal. Co-accused-Arvind Yadav has already been granted
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anticipatory bail by this Court vide order dated 30 July,
2024 passed in A.B.A. No.4924 of 2024. The petitioner,
however, undertakes to co-operate in the ongoing
investigation. Hence, he may be given the privilege of
anticipatory bail.
3. Le
arned A.P.P. opposes the petitioner’s prayer for grant of
anticipatory bail.
4. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and
considering the materials available on record, I am inclined
to enlarge the petitioner on anticipatory bail. Accordingly,
the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or
surrender before the court below within three weeks from
today, shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of
Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties
of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned
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Judicial Magistrate 1 Class, Palamau at Daltonganj in
connection with Chhatarpur P.S. Case No.77 of 2024
subject to the conditions as laid down under Section
482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Rajesh Shankar, J.)
Vikas/
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