Sunil SahaniversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13951 of 2026
                  Arising Out of PS. Case No.-542 Year-2025 Thana- BANJARIA District- East Champaran
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                 Sunil Sahani S/o Babulal Sahani R/o - Jhakhiya, P.S - Banjariya, District -
                 East Champaran

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr. Sumit Kumar Srivastva, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr. Nand Kumar, APP
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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 offences punishable under Sections 274 and

                   275 of the BNS, 2023 read with Section 30(a) of the Bihar

                   Excise Act.

                                3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner has antecedent of three cases under the Excise Act and

                   allegation is of recovery of 50.93 liters of liquor from five

                   different places.

                                4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner was not apprehended 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
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          and he came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar with

          whom he is on an 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 prosecution. It is also submitted that once an accused

          is implicated in a case relating to excise, the police starts

          implicating mechanically either at the instance of Chowkidar,

          local person, confessional statement or secret information

          without holding a proper investigation.

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

          anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

                       6. 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 Trial Court

          within a period of six weeks from today, be released on

          Provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.

          15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen 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 Banjaria

          P.S. Case No. 542 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down

          under Section 482 (2) of the BNSS.
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                                   7. It is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial

                      Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and

                      in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more

                      than three cases then it would be presumed that petitioner, for

                      the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his

                      antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional

                      anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after

                      verification if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of three

                      cases only, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order

                      shall be confirmed forthwith.



                                                              (Satyavrat Verma, J)
Rishabh/-

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