Nitish KumarversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13512 of 2026
                       Arising Out of PS. Case No.-190 Year-2025 Thana- TIKAPATTI District- Purnia
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                 Nitish Kumar Son of Binod Singh @ Nanki Resident of Village - Dumari,
                 P.S.- Tikkapatti, Dist.- Purnea.

                                                                                    ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                        Versus
                 The State of Bihar

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :        Mr. Nishant Kumar Sinha, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :        Mr. Umeshanand Pandit, APP
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   10-03-2026                  Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

                   APP for the State.

                                2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered

                   for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar

                   Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.

                                3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner has antecedent of one case under the Excise Act and

                   allegation is of recovery of 5 litres of liquor from a bamboo

                   orchard. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested

                   from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his

                   conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place

                   which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to

                   villagers at large and he came to be implicated at the instance of

                   Chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is also
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          submitted that if Chowkidar was aware of the involvement of

          the petitioner in the occurrence then why he did not inform the

          police prior to institution of the instant FIR, which casts an

          aspersion on the case of the prosecution.

                       4. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail

          application.

                       5. Considering the submissions made by the learned

          counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner, above-named, in the

          event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below

          within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on

          provisional anticipatory bail on his furnishing bail-bond in the

          sum of Rs.5,000/- (Rupees Five Thousand) with two sureties of

          the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court of

          Exclusive Special Judge Excise, Court No.-02, Purnea in

          connection with Tikapatti P.S. Case No.190 of 2025, subject to

          the conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

                       6. The application stands allowed.

                       7. It is made clear that the learned trial Court after

          accepting the provisional bail bond of the petitioner shall verify

          the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is

          found that petitioner has antecedent of more than one case, then

          it would be presumed that petitioner for the purposes of
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                         obtaining anticipatory bail had concealed his antecedent before

                         this Court, in that event, the present provisional anticipatory bail

                         order shall not be confirmed, but if on verification, it is found

                         that petitioner has antecedent of only one case, in that event, the

                         provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.


                                                   (Satyavrat Verma, J)

Sanjay/-

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