Prakash Rai @ Prakash KumarversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.42271 of 2026
                       Arising Out of PS. Case No.-495 Year-2025 Thana- MAHNAR District- Vaishali
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                 Prakash Rai @ Prakash Kumar Son of Rajeshwar Rai R/O Narayanpur
                 Dedhpura/Devpura, P.S.- Mahnar, Dist.- Vaishali
                                                                        ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                  Versus
                 The State of Bihar
                                                                 ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :        Mr. Dhirendra Prasad Sinha, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :        Dr. (Ms.) Indiwar Kumari, A.P.P.
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   03-07-2026                  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 the

                   Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.

                                3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner has antecedent of three cases out of which one case is

                   under the Excise Act and allegation is of recovery of 261 litres

                   of liquor from a mango orchard of Sakal Rai.

                                4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was

                   recovered from his conscious possession and even the alleged

                   recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner

                   and has no concern or relation with Sakal Rai. It is further

                   submitted that petitioner came to be implicated at the instance of
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          the Chawkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is next

          submitted that if the Chawkidar was aware of the involvement

          of the petitioner in the occurrence then why he did not inform

          the police prior to the 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 appearing on behalf of the petitioner, let 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.15,000/-

          (Rupees Fifteen 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 Mahnar P.S.

          Case No. 495 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down

          under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C./482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

                       7. However, it is made clear that thereafter the learned

          Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner

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

          three cases, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed

          his antecedent before this Court at para 3 of the anticipatory bail
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                     application in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order

                     shall not be confirmed but if it is found on verification that

                     petitioner has antecedent of only three cases in that event the

                     provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.


                                                                          (Satyavrat Verma, J)

Kundan/-

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