Dhakelu Bhuiya @ Awadh BhuiyaversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.19735 of 2026
                    Arising Out of PS. Case No.-39 Year-2026 Thana- AKHODHIGOLA District- Rohtas
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                 Dhakelu Bhuiya @ Awadh Bhuiya Son of Late Nageshwar Bhuiya Resident
                 of Village- Gobardhanpur, P.S.- Akorhigola, District- Rohtas

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :      Mr.Chhote Lal Mishra
                 For the Opposite Party/s :      Ms.Indu Kumari Srivastava
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   26-03-2026               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 Section 30(a) of the

                   Bihar Excise Act.

                             3.    Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

                   petitioner has antecedent of two cases out of which one case is

                   under the Excise Act and allegation is of recovery of 34.3 litres

                   of liquor from backside of poultry farm of Ashok.

                             4.    Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

                   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 petitioner has no concern or relation with Ashokh and he
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          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 about 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.

                   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. 10,000/- (Rupees

          Ten 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 Akorhigola P.S. Case

          No. 39 of 2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under

          Section 482(2) of the BNSS.

                   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 two

          cases then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of

          seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his antecedent before this
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                        Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be

                        confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner has

                        antecedent of two cases in that event the provisional anticipatory

                        bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.



                                                  (Satyavrat Verma, J)
Sumit/-

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