Sanjay Nut @ Sanjay NatversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.29214 of 2026
                        Arising Out of PS. Case No.-64 Year-2026 Thana- PANAPUR District- Saran
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                 Sanjay Nut @ Sanjay Nat S/o Sakaldeo Nut @ Sakaldew Nat R/V Bagdiha,
                 P.S - Panapur, Dist.- Saran.

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr.Sanjeet Kumar Singh, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr.Sanjay Kumar, APP
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   06-05-2026                  Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

                   Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

                                2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with

                   Panapur PS. Case No. 64 of 2026 dated 03-03-2026 instituted

                   under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise

                   (Amendment) Act, 2022.

                                3. The allegation is of recovery of 150 litres of illicit

                   country made liquor from the wheat filed of Raj Kumar Singh.

                                4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

                   petitioner is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the

                   present case. It is further submitted that no incriminating article

                   has been recovered either from the conscious possession of the

                   petitioner or from his house; rather, the illicit liquor has been

                   recovered from the wheat field of Raj Kumar Singh, which does
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          not belong to the petitioner. The petitioner has been made an

          accused in this case only on the basis of disclosure made by the

          local people of the vicinity. Lastly, it is submitted that one

          criminal case is pending against him.

                       5. Learned APP has opposed the prayer for bail.

                       6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of

          the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in

          the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within

          six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail upon

          furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two

          sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned

          2nd Exclusive Special Excise Judge, Saran at Chapra, in

          Panapur PS. Case No. 64 of 2026, subject to the conditions laid

          down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha

          Sanhita 2023 and further (i) that the petitioner shall co-operate

          in the trial and shall be properly represented on each and every

          date fixed by the Court and on his absence on two consecutive

          dates without sufficient reason, his bail bond shall be cancelled

          by the court below, (ii) that one of the bailors will be his own

          blood relation, preferably father, mother, brother, sister and or

          his wife, (iii) that the bailor shall also state on affidavit that he

          will inform the court concerned if the petitioner is made accused
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                     in any other case of similar nature after his release in the present

                     case and thereafter the court below will be at liberty to initiate

                     the proceeding for cancellation of bail on ground of misuse and

                     (iv) that if the petitioner tampers with the evidence or the

                     witnesses, in that case, the prosecution will be at liberty to move

                     for cancellation of bail.

                                  7. The application stands allowed.



                                                  (Khatim Reza, J)
shyambihari/-

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