Vikas Sahni @ Vikash KumarversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.33141 of 2026
                     Arising Out of PS. Case No.-82 Year-2026 Thana- MOTIPUR District- Muzaffarpur
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                 Vikas Sahni @ Vikash Kumar S/O Mishrilal Sahni R/O Village- Nariyar, P.O.
                 and P.S.- Motipur, PS Motipur

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr.Abhigyan Kumar
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr. Rabindra Kumar, APP
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   14-05-2026               1.    Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and

                   learned A.P.P. for the State, Mr. Rabindra Kumar.

                             2.    The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case

                   registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the

                   Bihar Excise Act.

                             3.    Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

                   petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of

                   recovery of 60 litres of liquor from a motorcycle.

                             4.    Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

                   petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was

                   recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of

                   the seized vehicle and he came to be implicated at the instance

                   of Chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is next

                   submitted that if Chowkidar was aware about the involvement
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          of the petitioner in the occurrence, then why he did not inform

          the police prior to 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 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. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Motipur P.S. Case No. 82 of 2026, subject to

          the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS.

                   7.     It is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial

          Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and

          in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even

          one case then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the

          purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his

          antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional

          anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after

          verification if it is found that petitioner is a person with clean
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                        antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order

                        shall be confirmed forthwith.



                                                  (Satyavrat Verma, J)
Sumit/-

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