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The petitioners were acquitted by a Judicial Magistrate in 2008 of offences under IPC sections 353, 506(1), 504 and 34. After the 2005 amendment to the CrPC, which made section 353 a non‑bailable offence and altered Section 378(1)(a) to require appeals against acquittals in cognizable non‑bailable …
The High Court of Allahabad considered a bail application filed by Keshavram @ Kriparam Prajapati in a POCSO case where the FIR alleged he enticed a girl, purportedly over 17 years old, away from her family. The applicant argued that the victim’s statement indicated a consensual relationship, no …
The petitioners challenged the FIR dated 07-08-2026 filed under several sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, seeking its quash. The High Court examined the FIR and held that it disclosed prima facie cognizable offences, making the petition untenable. …
The petitioner filed a criminal miscellaneous writ petition seeking to quash an FIR dated 19‑06‑2026 under Sections 137(2) and 61(2) of the Bhartiya Nagrika Suraksha Sanhita (B.N.S). The High Court examined the FIR and held that it disclosed a prima facie commission of offence, rendering the prayer …
The petitioner, Sanny Kumar, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2022, with 128.96 litres recovered from two vehicles. He contended that the vehicles did not belong to him, he was not …
The petitioner, Sandeep Yadav, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2022, with 45 litres of liquor seized from two motorcycles. The petitioner argued that the seized liquor was not in …
Guddu Kumar Yadav was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor, with 909 litres seized, under Sections 274/275, 3(5) of the Bihar Narcotic Substances (BN.S.) Act, 2023 and Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2022. The petitioner …
The petitioner, Binay Kumar, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018, with 81.45 litres recovered from a vehicle registered in his name. He contended that the vehicle had been sold, that he could not transfer …
The petitioner, Monu Kumar, was implicated in a case of illegal liquor trade after 6.9 litres of illicit liquor were seized from a vehicle he owned. He was not named in the FIR and the prosecution alleged his involvement solely based on vehicle ownership, without evidence of his conscious possession …
The petitioner, Kunal Kumar, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2018, with 7.59 litres of liquor seized from a grocery shop. He applied for anticipatory bail, arguing that the liquor …
The petitioner, Anjay Kumar, was implicated in a case of alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, although his name does not appear in the FIR. The prosecution alleged that a motorcycle registered to Avnish Kumar was used to transport 15 …
The petitioner, Jayant Kumar Rai, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018, with 55 litres of liquor recovered. He contended that he was not apprehended at the spot, had no conscious possession …
The petitioner, Awadhesh Sahani, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, with 57 litres of liquor seized from a joint family house. The petitioner contended that the liquor was not in his …
The petitioner, Sudh Kumar Paswan, was named in an FIR under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor, with 20 litres recovered. He contended that his name was included only because a motorcycle owned by him was used by …
The petitioner, Kundan Kumar Mandal, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2022 (Amended). The only basis for his implication was his ownership of a motorcycle seized in the raid, with no liquor …
The petitioner, Laxmi Sahni, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018, based solely on local residents' disclosures. He contended that he was not present at the site of the seizure of 90 litres …
The petitioner, Devpari Devi, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016, with 99 litres of liquor seized. Counsel argued that the liquor was recovered from an open orchard, not in the petitioner's …
The petitioner, Rupesh Kumar Ray, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016, based on the recovery of 15 litres of liquor from a motorbike he owned. He contended that the liquor was not in his …
Manoj Yadav was named in an FIR under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor, with 69.12 litres recovered. He contended that his name was listed solely on suspicion, that the liquor was recovered from an open thatched house …
The petitioners, Rajmati Devi and Prabhawati Devi, were named in an FIR under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor, with 17 litres recovered from a garbage heap in front of their house. They contended that the liquor was …
The petitioner, Santosh Kumar Singh, was not named in the FIR but was implicated in a case of alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2018, with 44 litres of liquor recovered. He contended that he was merely …
The petitioner, Dhirendra Kumar, was implicated in a case involving the recovery of 2,582 litres of illicit liquor under the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2022, although his name does not appear in the FIR. He argued that his involvement was limited to the sale of his motorcycle, which had been …
The petitioner, Mitra Devi, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018, after two litres of country-made liquor were recovered from a public husk house. The petitioner contended that the liquor was …
Sunil Singh and Sipahi Singh applied for anticipatory bail fearing arrest in a drug case (Kochas PS Case No. 265 of 2024) under Sections 8(c), 20(B)(ii) c, 22(c), 25 and 29 of the NDPS Act, where 450 kg of ganja was seized from a Hyva truck. The prosecution alleged that the petitioners were part of …
The petitioner, Kundan Kumar, was implicated in an excise case (PS No.822 of 2025) for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor after 8 litres were recovered from his motorcycle. He contended that the vehicle had been lent to a third party, Deva Kumar, for procuring medicines and that …
The petitioner, Prabhunath Bhagat, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and transport of illicit liquor under Sections 30(a) and 47 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016, after 1,575 litres of liquor were recovered from a pickup van registered in his name. He contended that he …
The petitioner, Suresh Kumar Gupta, was named in an FIR for alleged illegal manufacture and trade of illicit liquor, with a seizure of 1,235 litres of IMFL/country‑made liquor under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2022. He contended that he was implicated only because he owned …
Petitioners Rajesh Kumar and Mahendra Manjhi were named in an FIR for alleged offences under Sections 8, 15, 18(c) and 25 of the NDPS Act relating to the destruction of illegally cultivated opium plants in a forest area of Gaya district. They contended that they are simple farmers with no …
Vikash Kumar sought anticipatory bail after being implicated in a case (P.S. Case No. 47 of 2026) for alleged possession of 54 litres of country-made liquor recovered from the courtyard of Rajesh Kumar Kamat, under Sections 30(a) and 41 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018. The petitioner …
Suraj Harijan filed an application under Section 528 of the BNSS seeking to quash the criminal proceedings (Case No. 11244 of 2023) instituted against him for offences under Sections 376, 452 and 506 of the IPC. He contended that the FIR was originally lodged for offences under Sections 452 and 354, …
The petitioner, Baijnath Singh Bhokta, sought anticipatory bail fearing arrest in a case alleging violations of Sections 8(B), 18 and 29 of the NDPS Act for alleged opium cultivation on protected forest land. The prosecution described a joint raid that uncovered approximately 1.10 acres of opium …
The petitioner, Deva Mahto, was implicated in a narcotics case (Shikarpur PS Case No. 422 of 2025) for alleged possession of 10 kg of ganja under Sections 8 and 20(b)(ii)(B) of the NDPS Act. He contended that the narcotic substance was not found in his conscious or physical possession and that his …
The applicant Vinod sought anticipatory bail under Section 482 of the BNSS in a case arising from a 2015 incident where he was initially not charge‑sheeted but later summoned after a witness altered his statement to implicate Vinod. The prosecution argued that the applicant was the principal …
The High Court considered an anticipatory bail application filed by Devendra Mishra (alias Dabbu) under Section 3(1) of the U.P. Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986, in FIR dated 13-11-2021. The applicant argued that the gang chart linking him to the case had been quashed …
The petitioner, Vivek Das, sought anticipatory bail after being implicated in a kidnapping case involving a minor girl, with charges under Sections 64, 87, 126(1), 127(1) of the B.N.S.S. and Sections 4 and 6 of the POCSO Act. The informant alleged that the petitioner abducted her daughter, but the …
The petitioner, Deepak Rai, sought anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the CrPC in a case registered under Sections 20(b)(ii)(A) of the NDPS Act for alleged involvement in the trade of 12 grams of smokelike material. The prosecution’s case relied on a confessional statement of co‑accused Manish …
The petitioners, a family of co‑sharers, were implicated in a FIR alleging assault, attempted murder, and other offences against an informant and her mother, allegedly to seize land. They applied for pre‑arrest bail, claiming innocence, lack of material evidence, and that the allegations of injury, …
Guddu Kumar was arrested in connection with a case involving multiple offences under the Bihar Penal Code, alleged to have assaulted an informant and his son during a land dispute. The petitioner claimed innocence, asserting the injuries were minor, the incident was self‑defence, and he has a clean …
Pinki Kumari, the wife of Dharmendra Kumar, was named as an accused in a case arising from a violent land‑dispute incident in Kawakol, Nawada, where a group allegedly broke a boundary wall, damaged property and assaulted the informant’s family, resulting in the death of the informant’s cousin. The …
The High Court considered a bail application filed by Chahat in a criminal case (Crime No. 280 of 2025) under Sections 137(2), 65(2) of the B.N.S.S and Sections 5(m) and 6 of the POCSO Act. The applicant claimed innocence, asserting that the alleged victim, though a minor, gave consent as per her …
The petitioner, Md. Tahimad Alam, was arrested on 3 December 2021 in connection with a case under the NDPS Act for possession of 78 kg of ganja, a quantity exceeding commercial limits. He sought regular bail, arguing that he has been in custody since his arrest, has a clean antecedent, and that the …
The petitioner, Rahul Kumar, applied for anticipatory bail fearing arrest in a case (Arwal P.S. Case No. 297 of 2025) under Sections 8(c) and 21(b) of the NDPS Act. The prosecution alleged that 125 grams of smokeless tobacco (smack) was recovered from a co‑accused, Sonu Patel, who named the …
The petitioners, Md. Azad and Md. Jamir, sought anticipatory bail fearing arrest in a case registered under several sections of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Arms Act. The FIR alleged that they were part of an unlawful mob that fired on an informant, but the specific charge …
The petitioner, Khushal Kumar, applied for pre‑arrest bail in a case registered under Section 310(2) of the BNS for alleged assault and robbery. The FIR alleged that unknown persons committed the crime, and the petitioner’s name appeared only in the confessional statement of a co‑accused, Tribhuwan …
The appellants, Ramashish Sah and Dinesh Prasad, appealed under Section 14(A)(2) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against the refusal of anticipatory bail by the Additional Sessions Judge. They contended that they were falsely implicated in a dispute over …
The appellants alleged that the Doloo Tea Estate in Assam, earmarked for a greenfield airport, was subjected to massive clearing of shade trees and uprooting of over 4.1 million tea bushes without the mandatory environmental clearance required under the 2006 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) …
The widow of Madan Tamang, a political leader murdered in public, filed a writ petition under Article 32 seeking quashing of charge‑sheets and a fresh investigation by an independent Special Investigation Team, alleging that the State police, CID and CBI investigations were faulty. The Supreme Court …
