Dharmendra Nut @ Dharmendra NatversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13599 of 2026
                        Arising Out of PS. Case No.-369 Year-2025 Thana- AMNAUR District- Saran
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                 Dharmendra Nut @ Dharmendra Nat S/O Ramnath Nut R/o Village Ketuka
                 Lokhhi, P.S. Amnour District Saran at Chapra

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr. Avinash Kumar Pandey
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr. Abhay Kumar
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   12-03-2026                  1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

                   A.P.P. for the State.

                                2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case

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

                   Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

                                3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner has antecedent of two cases, out of which, one case is

                   under the Excise Act and allegation is of recovery of 60 litres of

                   liquor from a Banana 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
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          inimical term. It is next 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 prosecutionIt is

          also submitted that once an accused is implicated in a case

          relating to excise, the police starts implicating mechanically

          either through chowkidar, local person, confessional statement

          or secret information without holding a proper investigation.

                       4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for

          anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

                       5. Considering the submissions made by the learned

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

          event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks

          from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail on

          furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) with

          two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the

          learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in

          connection with Amnour P.S. Case No.369/2025, subject to the

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

                       6. It is made clear that the learned trial court thereafter

          shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the

          event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more than
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                       two cases, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner

                       had concealed his antecedent before this court, as such, the

                       provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if

                       on verification it is found that petitioner has antecedent of two

                       cases, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall

                       be confirmed forthwith.



                                                 (Satyavrat Verma, J)
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