Tejan ChaudharyversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.18859 of 2026
                      Arising Out of PS. Case No.-20 Year-2026 Thana- Kadirganj P.S. District- Nawada
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                 Tejan Chaudhary S/O Late Valadev Choudhary @ Chandar Chaudhary R/O
                 Vill.- Kadirganj Chaudhary Tola, P.S.- Kadirganj, District- Nawadah

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :         Mr. Ram Prawesh Kumar
                 For the Opposite Party/s :         Mr. Parmanand Prasad
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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 Act, 2016.

                                3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of

                   recovery of 10 litres of liquor from house of the petitioner. It is

                   next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as

                   such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and

                   the house in question is a joint family property as such it cannot

                   be alleged with certainty that it was petitioner, who had kept the

                   liquor in the house or the liquor kept in the house was within his

                   knowledge and after amendment in the Excise Act in the year
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          2018, the concept of deemed possession and presumed offender

          has been done away with and he came to be implicated at the

          instance of chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is

          also 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, when petitioner

          admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.

                       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 Kadirganj P.S. Case No.20/2026, 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
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                       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

                       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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