Jungla v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.5803 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-550 Year-2025 Thana- GARDANIBAG District- Patna ====================================================== 1.

Jungla S/O Late Bittu Ram R/O Mohalla- Ambedkar Colony, P.SGardanibagh, District- Patna. 2.

Mangal Ram @ Mangla S/O Late Biltu Ram R/O Mohalla- Ambedkar Colony, P.S- Gardanibagh, District- Patna.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Niranjan Parihar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Arun Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 03-02-2026

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 43.82 liters of liquor from the house of co-accused person at Ambedkar colony.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners were not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and even alleged

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.5803 of 2026(2) dt.03-02-2026 2/3 recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioners and they came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone without holding a proper investigation, when petitioners admittedly are persons with clean antecedent.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their 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. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) each 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 Gardanibag P.S. Case No. 550 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 petitioners and in the event if it is found that any of the petitioners have antecedent of even one case then it would be presumed that petitioners, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.5803 of 2026(2) dt.03-02-2026 3/3 concealed their antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

8. At this stage, the learned counsel for the petitioners, based on instruction, undertakes to deposit an amount of Rs. 1500/- with the High Court Legal Services Committee, Patna within a period of two weeks from today. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T