Sanjay NutversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.32086 of 2026
                     Arising Out of PS. Case No.-712 Year-2025 Thana- MADHAURAH District- Saran
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                 Sanjay Nut S/o Krishna Nut R/o Village - Pakahan Nut Toli, P.S - Madhaura,
                 District - Saran
                                                                           ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                  Versus
                 The State of Bihar
                                                                    ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :      Mr. Hemant Kumar, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :      Ms. Madhuri Lata, A.P.P.
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   13-05-2026                  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 has antecedent of two cases under the Excise Act and

                   allegation is of recovery of 20 litres of liquor from Nut Toli.

                                4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

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

                   recovered from his conscious possession and even the alleged

                   recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner

                   but then is accessible to villagers at large and he came to be

                   implicated at the instance of the Chawkidar with whom he is on

                   an inimical term. It is further submitted that if the Chawkidar
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          was aware of the involvement of the petitioner in the occurrence

          then why he did not inform the police prior to the institution of

          the instant FIR which casts an aspersion on the case of the

          prosecution.

                       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 appearing on behalf of 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.10,000/-

          (Rupees Ten Thousand) 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 Marhowrah P.S.

          Case No. 712 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 more than two

          cases, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his

          antecedent before this Court at para 3 of the anticipatory bail

          application in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order
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                     shall not be confirmed but if it is found on verification that

                     petitioner has antecedent of only two cases in that event the

                     provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.


                                                                          (Satyavrat Verma, J)

Kundan/-

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