IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.39222 of 2009 RAMESH KUMAR, SON OF JAGARNATH RAI, RESIDENT OF MOHALLA DAKBUNGLOW, P.S. HAJIPUR TOWN, DISTRICT VAISHALI. ---- PETITIONER Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ---- OPPOSITE PARTY ----------- 2 8.3.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the counsel appearing on behalf of the State. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case under Sections 47A of the Excise Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is the owner of 27 shops. He was not present at the place of occurrence. The allegation is that eleven cartoons of foreign liquor were found in his shop out of which eight cartoons contained liquor which was “for sale in Jharkhand only.” It is submitted that it cannot be said that the petitioner is directly responsible for the alleged lapses, if any, as he is not expected to be present in all his shops at the same time. Be that as it may, petitioner Ramesh Kumar is directed to be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with C2A-7 of 2007 on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the to the satisfaction of the Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Vaishali at Hajipur subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C with the condition that he must present on each and every date as and when required by the Court and if he absents himself even for a single date without reasonable cause, his bail bond shall stand cancelled. Sanjay (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)