Prince Kumar Chauhan @ Prince Chauhan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.3769 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-16 Year-2025 Thana- MIRGANJ District- Gopalganj ====================================================== Prince Kumar Chauhan @ Prince Chauhan S/o Ramesh Chauhan @ Ramesh Dinanath Chauhan R/o Village - Phatapur Tola, Digha, P.S - Mirganj, District - Gopalganj ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Vikash Kumar Shukla For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Shyam Bihari Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 29-01-2026

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 317(5) of the B.N.S. and 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 06 litres of liquor from the possession of Chand Babu, 2.600 litres of liquor from Fatehpur tola and 27 litres of liquor from a motorcycle.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.3769 of 2026(2) dt.29-01-2026 2/3 recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of the seized vehicle and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Rupesh in police custody, which does not have any evidentiary value. It is next submitted that police in majority of cases implicating innocent persons either at the behest of 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 Mirganj P. S. Case No.16 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

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.3769 of 2026(2) dt.29-01-2026 3/3 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 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/- U T