1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and
learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his
arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under
Section 30(a), 32, 33, 36 and 41(i) of the Excise Act.
3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that
the petitioner has antecedent of eight cases under the Excise Act
and allegation is of recovery of 6000 litres of spirit from four
different vehicles.
4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that
petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was
recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of
any of the seized vehicles and he came to be implicated based
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on secret information, which is the easiest way to implicate
someone. It is next submitted that police in majority of cases
implicating innocent persons either at the behest of Chaukidar,
local person, secret information and confessional statement in a
mechanical manner without holding a proper investigation. It is
next submitted that petitioner in similar also came to be
implicated earlier in different excise cases