Rajendra Beldar @ Rejendra BeldarversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.32388 of 2026
                         Arising Out of PS. Case No.-66 Year-2026 Thana- KONCH District- Gaya
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                 Rajendra Beldar @ Rejendra Beldar Son of Late Saguni Beldar Resident of
                 Village- Belarbigha, P.S.- Konch, District- Gaya

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr. Vinod Kumar
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr. Kalyan Shankar
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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

                   Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

                                3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner has antecedent of one case under the Excise Act and

                   allegation is of recovery of 10 litres of liquor from a wheat field

                   at Beldar Bigha. It is next submitted that petitioner was not

                   arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his

                   conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place

                   which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to

                   villagers at large and he came to be implicated based on secret

                   information which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is
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          also submitted that once an accused is implicated in a case

          relating to excise, the police starts implicating mechanically

          either through chowkidar, local person, confessional statement

          or secret information without holding a proper investigation.

                       4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for

          anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

                       5. Considering the submissions made by the learned

          counsel for the petitioner, 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.5000/- (Rupees five 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 Konch P.S. Case No.66/2026, subject to the

          conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

                       6. It is made clear that the learned trial court thereafter

          shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the

          event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more than

          one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had

          concealed his antecedent before this court, as such, the

          provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if

          on verification it is found that petitioner has antecedent of one
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                       case, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be

                       confirmed forthwith.



                                                 (Satyavrat Verma, J)
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