Sharukh AlamversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.18372 of 2026
                   Arising Out of PS. Case No.-116 Year-2025 Thana- NAUTAN District- West Champaran
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                 Sharukh Alam S/o Manjoor Miyan R/o Vill- Shivrajpur, P.S.- Nautan, Distt-
                 West Champaran

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr. Brij Kishor Mishra
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr. Shyameshwar Dayal
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   25-03-2026                  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 (Amendment) Act, 2022.

                                3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of

                   recovery of 40.320 litres of liquor from a bamboo clump and

                   three motorcycles were seized. 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 he came to be implicated based on the fact that he is owner

                   of one of the seized vehicle. It is next submitted that no prudent
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          person would use his own vehicle for committing an occurrence

          and thus would create evidence against himself and hence

          would get implicated. It is also submitted that the petitioner was

          completely unaware that his friend would misuse his vehicle in

          the manner as alleged who also fled from the spot.

                       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.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 Nautan P.S. Case No.116/2025, 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 even one

          case, 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
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                       on verification it is found that petitioner is a person with clean

                       antecedent, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order

                       shall be confirmed forthwith.



                                                 (Satyavrat Verma, J)
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