Raju Singh @ Abhinandan SinghversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.16915 of 2026
                    Arising Out of PS. Case No.-932 Year-2025 Thana- MOTIHARI TOWN District- East
                                                       Champaran
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                 Raju Singh @ Abhinandan Singh S/o Lakhindra Singh @ Lakhendra Singh
                 R/o Village- Kundwa Chainpur, P.S- Kundwa Chainpur, Dist- East
                 Champaran.

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :      Mr. Girish Chandra Jha, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :      Mr. Md. Shakir Ahmad, APP
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH
                 MISHRA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   13-03-2026                  Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

                   APP for the State.

                               2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection

                   with Motihari Town P.S. Case No. 932 of 2025 instituted for the

                   offences under Sections 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and

                   Excise Act.

                               3. The prosecution case, in short, is that total 173.7

                   litres of liquor was recovered from three wheeler.

                               4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the

                   petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case.

                   Learned counsel further submitted that petitioner is neither the

                   owner nor the driver of the vehicle. The petitioner has got no
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                     knowledge and concern with the alleged recovery of liquor.

                     Learned counsel, therefore, submitted that prima-facie, no case

                     is made out against the petitioner. The petitioner has no criminal

                     antecedent. There is no compliance of Section 103 of the

                     Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

                                 5. Learned APP for the State has vehemently opposed

                     the prayer for grant of bail to the petitioner.

                                  6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances

                     of the case, let the petitioner above named, in the event of

                     arrest/surrender before the learned Court below within a period

                     of six weeks from today, be released on 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

                     Court below/concerned Court                in connection with Motihari

                     Town P.S. Case No. 932 of 2025, subject to the conditions as

                     laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarika

                     Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.



                                           (Rudra Prakash Mishra, J)
Alok Verma/-

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