Kunal Sahani @ Kunal Kumar SahaniversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.2497 of 2026
                     Arising Out of PS. Case No.-546 Year-2019 Thana- KADAMKUAN District- Patna
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                 Kunal Sahani @ Kunal Kumar Sahani S/O Gopal Prasad Sahani R/O Das
                 Lane East Lohanipur, Kadamkuan, P.S.- Kadamkuan, Dist.- Patna

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :      Mr.Binay Kumar Singh
                 For the Opposite Party/s :      Mr.Sunil Kumar Pandey
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   28-01-2026               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 is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of

                   recovery of 20.7 litres of liquor from the house of petitioner and

                   Gautam Sahni.

                             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 after 2018

                   amendment in the Excise Act, the concept of deemed possession

                   and presumed offender has been done away with. It is next
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          submitted that 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 knowledge of the petitioner. It is further

          submitted that he came to be implicated based on secret

          information which is the easiest way to implicate someone.

                   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.

          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

          Kadamkuan P.S. Case No. 546 of 2019, 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 even one case

          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 is a

                        person with clean antecedent in that event the provisional

                        anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

                                 8.     At this stage, the learned counsel for the petitioner

                        based on instruction submits that petitioner undertakes to deposit

                        an amount of Rs. 1,500/- with Advocates’ Association, Patna High

                        Court.



                                                  (Satyavrat Verma, J)
Sumit/-

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