Raghvendra KumarversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.37357 of 2026
                         Arising Out of PS. Case No.-151 Year-2025 Thana- Gurupa District- Gaya
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                 Raghvendra Kumar S/o Ramnandan Prasad R/o Vill- Ghanshyam Bigha, PS-
                 Hulasganj, Dist- Jehanabad
                                                                         ... ... Petitioner/s
                                              Versus
                 The State of Bihar
                                                                  ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr. Priya Ranjan
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr. Parmanand Prasad
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   16-06-2026                  1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

                   A.P.P. for the State.

                                2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection

                   with Gurupa P.S. Case No.151 of 2025, registered for the

                   offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and

                   Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.

                                3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of

                   recovery of 1030 litres of liquor from seven different

                   motorcycles. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested

                   from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious

                   possession and he came to be implicated based on the fact that

                   he is owner of one of the seized motorcycle. It is next submitted

                   that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for

                   committing an occurrence and thus would create evidence

                   against himself and hence would get implicated. It is also
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          submitted that the petitioner was completely unaware that his

          friend would misuse his vehicle in the manner as alleged who

          also fled from the spot. It is also submitted that petitioner is a

          B.Ed., S.T.E.T. and C.T.E.T. qualified person and if in the nature

          of allegation as alleged the petitioner is sent to judicial custody,

          his entire career would get jeopardized.

                       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.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 Gurupa P.S. Case No.151/2025, 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 even one

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

          concealed his antecedent before this court, as such, the
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                     provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if

                     on verification 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)
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