Navin Ray @ Navin Kumar @ Naveen KumarversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.33550 of 2026
                 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-67 Year-2026 Thana- TURKI KHARARU District- Muzaffarpur
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                 Navin Ray @ Navin Kumar @ Naveen Kumar S/o Khayali Ray Resident of
                 Village -Chandrahiya @ Chadhua, P.S. -Turki, District-Muzaffarpur, Bihar.

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :      Mr. Prabhat Kumar Singh
                 For the Opposite Party/s :      Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tiwary
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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.

                                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

                   petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of

                   recovery of 29.83 liters of liquor from house of the petitioner.

                                4. Learned     counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing

                   was recovered from his conscious possession and the house in

                   question is a joint family property, as such, it cannot be alleged

                   with certainty that it was petitioner who had kept the liquor in
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          the house or the liquor kept in the house was within his

          knowledge and after amendment in the excise act in the year

          2018, the concept of deemed possession and presumed offender

          has been done away with and he came to be implicated at the

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

          is also submitted that if Chowkidar was aware of the

          involvement 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 before the learned Trial Court

          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 Turki P.S.

          Case No. 67 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
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                      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 antecedent in that event the provisional

                      anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.



                                                        (Satyavrat Verma, J)
Rishabh/-

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