JUDGMENT Nandita Dubey, J. - This is the first application filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on behalf of the applicant for grant of anticipatory bail. 2. T h e applicant is apprehending his arrest in connection with Crime No.515/2022 registered at Police Station Chhapara, District Seoni, for the offence punishable under Section 34(2) of the M.P. Excise Act. 3. As per the prosecution, on the basis of information one motorcycle was intercepted wherein 59.760 bulk liters of liquor has been seized from the pillion rider. It is stated that the driver ran away from the spot and the present applicant has been made accused on the basis of memorandum of pillion rider, who stated that the said liquor was purchased from the present applicant, who is the manger of liquor shop namely "Mugwani Sharab Ki Dukan". 4. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant has been falsely implicated on the basis of memorandum only. Nothing has been seized from his possession. He is only an employee of particular liquor shop and has not committed any offence nor he was present on the spot. Learned counsel for the applicant undertakes to assist and cooperate in the investigation in case if he is released on anticipatory bail. It is also pointed out that he has no criminal antecedents registered against him till date. This fact has not been disputed by the counsel for the objector as well as the State. 5. Learned counsel for the State has vehemently opposed the bail application. 6. Considering the nature of allegation against the applicant, the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and other facts and circumstances of the case, this application is allowed. 7. It is directed that in the event of arrest, the applicant be released on bail upon his furnishing a bail bond in the sum of Rs.50,000/- (Rupees Fifty Thousand) with one solvent surety of the like amount to the satisfaction of the Station House Officer/Arresting Officer of the Police Station concerned. 8. The applicant shall abide by the conditions enumerated under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Certified Copy as per rules.