Mahadev Sah @ Ravindra SahversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.4507 of 2026
                       Arising Out of PS. Case No.-114 Year-2025 Thana- Dhrampura District- Rohtas
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                 Mahadev Sah @ Ravindra Sah S/o Vishwanath Sah Resident of Village -
                 Mujradh, P.S.- Dharmpura, District - Rohtas

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :        Mr.Shashikant
                 For the Opposite Party/s :        Mr.Mritunjay Kumar Nirala
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   31-01-2026                  1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and

                   learned APP for the State.

                                2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his

                   arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under

                   Section 30(a) of the Excise Act.

                                3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   the petitioner has antecedent of one case under the Excise Act

                   and allegation is of recovery of 41 litres of liquor from a car.

                                4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

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

                   recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of

                   the seized car and he came to be implicated at the instance of

                   Chaukidar, but then, it is submitted that police in majority of

                   cases implicating innocent persons either at the behest of
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          Chaukidar, local person, secret information and confessional

          statement in a mechanical manner without holding a proper

          investigation.

                       5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail

          application.

                       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 Court below

          within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on

          provisional anticipatory bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the

          sum 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 Dharmpura P. S. Case No.114 of 2025, subject to the

          conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

                       7. The application stands allowed.

                       8. It is made clear that the learned trial Court after

          accepting the provisional bail bonds of the petitioner 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

          obtaining anticipatory bail had concealed his antecedent before
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                         this Court, in that event, the present provisional anticipatory bail

                         order shall not be confirmed, but if on verification, it is found

                         that petitioner has antecedent of one case only, in that event, the

                         provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

                                      9. At this stage, the learned counsel appearing on

                         behalf of the petitioner based on instruction submits that

                         petitioner undertakes to deposit an amount of Rs.2500/- with

                         Advocates’ Association, Patna High Court, Patna within a

                         period of two weeks from today.



                                                   (Satyavrat Verma, J)
vikash/-

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