Lakshmi Paswan @ Gore PaswanversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.15070 of 2026
                      Arising Out of PS. Case No.-26 Year-2026 Thana- RISIYAP District- Aurangabad
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                 Lakshmi Paswan @ Gore Paswan S/O Aditya Paswan R/O Vill.- Mangurahi,
                 P.S.- Risiup, Dist.- Aurangabad.
                                                                       ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                  Versus
                 The State of Bihar
                                                                ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :        Ms. Mukul Kumari, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :        Mr. Rabindra Kumar, A.P.P.
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   25-03-2026                  1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.

                   Rabindra Kumar, learned A.P.P. for the State.

                                2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case

                   registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a),

                   30(c), 30(d) and 41 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise

                   (Amendment) Act, 2022.

                                3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of

                   recovery of 199.5 litres of liquor along with 80 litres of spirit

                   from Gamhari Badhar.

                                4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was

                   recovered from his conscious possession and even the alleged

                   recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner

                   and is accessible to villagers at large. It is further submitted that
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          petitioner came to be implicated at the instance of the

          Chawkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is next

          submitted that if the Chawkidar was aware of the involvement

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

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

          an aspersion on the case of the prosecution. It is also submitted

          that it appears that the Chawkidar, in order to save the real

          culprits, falsely implicated the petitioner, when petitioner

          admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.

                       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, let 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.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Risiup P.S. Case No. 26 of 2026, G.R. No.

          211 of 2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under

          Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C./482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

                       7. However, it is made clear that thereafter the learned
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                     Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner

                     and if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case,

                     it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his

                     antecedent before this Court at para 3 of the anticipatory bail

                     application in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order

                     shall not be confirmed but if it is found on verification that

                     petitioner is a person with clean antecedent in that event the

                     provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.


                                                                          (Satyavrat Verma, J)

Kundan/-

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