Jai Kishore ChaudharyversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                             CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.27788 of 2026
                   Arising Out of PS. Case No.-278 Year-2025 Thana- MALAHI District- East Champaran
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                 Jai Kishore Chaudhary Son of Late Ramchandra Chaudhari Resident of
                 Village - Sonbal Bazar, P.S.- Malahi, District - East Champaran
                                                                                  ... ... Petitioner
                                                     Versus
                 The State of Bihar
                                                                           ... ... Opposite Party
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner     :         Mr. Vijay Shankar Shrivastava, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party :         Mrs. Rina Sinha, APP
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRAVEEN KUMAR
                                       ORAL ORDER

3   13-05-2026                 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

                   Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

                                   2. This application for anticipatory bail arises out

                   of Malahi P.S. Case No. 278 of 2025, registered for the offence

                   punishable under Sections 30(a) and 37 of the Bihar Prohibition

                   and Excise Amendment Act.

                                   3. As per allegation, from the orchard of one Tahir

                   Mian, 20 liters of country made liquor has been recovered.

                                   4. It has been submitted by learned counsel for the

                   petitioner that the name of the petitioner has surfaced in this

                   case on the basis of confessional statement of co-accused Sipahi

                   Kumar. It has further been submitted that the petitioner is in no

                   way connected with the said orchard. It has also been submitted

                   that though the petitioner has been made accused in three other

                   cases of similar nature, but he is on bail and that is the reason
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                    for false implication of the petitioner by the local police in the

                    present case thorough confessional statement of co-accused,

                    which has got no evidentiary value. The search and seizure is in

                    violation of Section 103 BNSS.

                                    5. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer

                    of anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

                                 6. Heard the parties and perused the record.

                                 7. Considering the facts and circumstances, let the

                    petitioner above named, in the event of his arrest/surrender

                    within six weeks from today in the Court below, be released on

                    bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand)

                    with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of

                    the learned Exclusive Special Excise Court-1, East Champaran,

                    Motihari, in connection with Malahi P.S. Case No. 278 of 2025,

                    subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of

                    the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita.



                                               (Praveen Kumar, J)
Pawan/-

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