Dipan Singh @ Dipnarayan SinghversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.20515 of 2026
                      Arising Out of PS. Case No.-898 Year-2025 Thana- VAISHALI District- Vaishali
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                 Dipan Singh @ Dipnarayan Singh son of Late Bhutta Singh RO Village-
                 Shyampur, PS- Vaishali (Belsar OP) District -Vaishali
                                                                              ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                   Versus
                 The State of Bihar
                                                                       ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr. Manish Chandra Gandhi, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr. Ramesh Chandra, A.P.P.
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   31-03-2026                   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 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 6 litres of liquor from a rented shop of the

                   petitioner.

                                 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

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

                   recovered from his conscious possession. It is further submitted

                   that petitioner came to be implicated based on the fact that he

                   had rented the shop in question. It is next submitted that no

                   prudent person would use his own premises for committing an
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          occurrence and, thus, would create evidence against himself

          and, hence, would get implicated and at the same time shall

          bring disrepute to his business. It is also submitted that it

          appears that some customers fearing the police left the liquor in

          the shop while fleeing. It is reiterated and submitted that

          petitioner 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 Vaishali (Belsar O.P.) P.S. Case No. 898 of

          2025, 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

          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
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                     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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