Lakhan Singh @ Lakhan Singh BhoktaversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31863 of 2026
                      Arising Out of PS. Case No.-63 Year-2026 Thana- BARACHATTI District- Gaya
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                 Lakhan Singh @ Lakhan Singh Bhokta, aged about 41 years, Gender- Male,
                 son of Late Ganeshi Singh Bhokta, resident of Village- Manwajhar, P.S.-
                 Barachatty, District- Gaya,
                                                                        ... ... Petitioner/s

                                                      Versus

                 The State of Bihar
                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :      Mr. Gajendra 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   07-05-2026                  Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

                   Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

                                2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with

                   Barachatty PS Case No.63 of 2026 dated 17.02.2026, instituted

                   under Sections 8(B), 18 and 29 of the NDPS Act.

                                3. The allegation against the petitioner and co-accused

                   is that they were involved in cultivation of opium plant in the

                   reserved forest area.

                                4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

                   petitioner has been made accused only on the basis of disclosure

                   made by the local Chaukidar. It is further submitted that the

                   land on which it is alleged that poppy was cultivated is in the

                   reserved forest area. However, it is the duty of the officials of
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                      the forest department to check illegal cultivation of poppy plants

                      which were cultivated by the labourers in connivance with the

                      forest officials. The petitioner has no concern with the alleged

                      poppy plants cultivated in the forest land. Lastly, it is submitted

                      that the petitioner has no criminal antecedents.

                                   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

                      Sessions Judge cum Special Judge, NDPS Act, Gaya Jee, in

                      Barachatty PS Case No.63 of 2026, subject to the conditions

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

                      Sanhita, 2023.

                                   7. The application stands allowed.


                                                                   (Khatim Reza, J)
J. Alam/-

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