Rupesh Kumar SinghversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.37577 of 2026
                       Arising Out of PS. Case No.-164 Year-2025 Thana- ARER District- Madhubani
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                 Rupesh Kumar Singh S/o Jagdish Singh Resident of Village - Karhi, PS -
                 Arer, District - Madhubani

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr.Bhavesh Kumar Sah
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Ms.Shaheen Begum
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   29-06-2026               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 Sections 274, 275

                   and 3(5) of BNS and Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

                             3.    Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

                   petitioner has antecedent of one case under the Excise Act and

                   allegation is of recovery of 117 litres of liquor from three

                   different motorcycles.

                             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

                   any of the seized motorcycles and he came to be implicated

                   based on confessional statement of Govind in police custody
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          which does not have any evidentiary value. It is further

          submitted that once an accused is implicated in a case relating to

          excise, the police starts implicating mechanically either at the

          instance of Chowkidar, local person, confessional statement or

          secret information without holding a proper investigation.

                   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. 5,000/- (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 Arer P.S. Case No.

          164 of 2025, 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 more than 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
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                        confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner has

                        antecedent of one case in that event the provisional anticipatory

                        bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.



                                                  (Satyavrat Verma, J)
Sumit/-

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