IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.87871 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-358 Year-2024 Thana- PUPRI District- Sitamarhi ====================================================== Sampat Das @ Sampat Lal Das S/O Late Jagdev Das R/O Village- Bahera Jahidpur, P.S- Nanpur, Distt.- Sitamarhi. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Devendra Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Meena Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SOURENDRA PANDEY ORAL ORDER 3 30-04-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. 2. The petitioner seeks bail in connection with Pupri P.S. Case No. 358 of 2024 registered for the offences under Sections 316(2), 338, 336(3), 317(5), 341(1) and 3(5) of B.N.S 3. The prosecution case is to the effect that a truck carrying stolen onions was coming with a forged number plate and an information to such effect was received by the police. It is alleged that the police conducted a raid and found 30 tons of onion loaded in Nasik had proceeded towards Chapra, and the accused persons, by changing the number plate of the truck, had committed theft of such onions, and the stolen onions were sold to the petitioner, namely, Sampat Das and around 605 packets of onion were recovered from the godown of the petitioner along Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.87871 of 2024(3) dt.30-04-2025 2/3 with cash of worth Rs. 8,50,000/- from under the seat of the truck. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in the instant case. Since he is a registered merchant trader of onions, he had purchased the onions and kept the same in his godown. It has also been submitted that the main conspirator of the case is Rampal Choudhary and the petitioner had no knowledge of such incident. Learned counsel further submits that the petitioner has antecedent of one case arising out of the same incident, which was registered by the owner of the onions at Nasik, in which the petitioner is on bail. It is lastly submitted that the petitioner is in custody since 02.09.2024. 5. The learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State has opposed the prayer for bail and has stated that the petitioner was apprehended along with stolen onions and Rs. 8,50,000/-, was recovered from under the seat of the truck. 6. Considering the aforesaid submissions of the parties and taking into account the fact that the petitioner is a dealer of the onion and that the petitioner is in custody since 02.09.2024, let the above-named petitioner be enlarged on bail on each of them furnishing a bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.87871 of 2024(3) dt.30-04-2025 3/3 Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned S.D.J.M, Pupri Sitamarhi, in connection Pupri P.S. Case No. 358 of 2024 subject to the conditions that a. One of the bailors of the petitioner shall be his close relative. b. The petitioner shall remain physically present in Court on each date of the trial. c. In case of absence on two consecutive dates, or in violation of the terms of the bail and if the prosecution is found involvement of the petitioner in similar nature of offence, the bail bond of the petitioner will be liable to be canceled by the Court concerned. Prakash/- (Sourendra Pandey, J) U