Anuradha Kumari v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.6435 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-362 Year-2025 Thana- KHAGARIA District- Khagaria ====================================================== 1.
Anuradha Kumari W/O Ankesh Kumar R/O Village- Khargi Tirsi, P.SGangour, Distt.- Khagaria. 2.
Archna Kumari W/O Pamua @ Angad Kumar R/O Village- Khargi Tirsi, P.S- Gangour, Distt.- Khagaria.
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Santosh Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Anant Kumar 1, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 04-02-2026
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 Sections 30(a) and 30(d) of the Bihar Excise Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and are women and allegation is of recovery of 100 liters of liquor from a poultry form of Ankesh along with 200 liters of Jawa Mahua which was destroyed at the spot and four motorcycles were seized.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6435 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 2/3 petitioners were not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and are not the owner of any of the seized vehicles and came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Jagwali Yadav in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value. It is also submitted that police deliberately implicated the petitioner no. 1 who is wife of Ankesh.
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 Khagaria P.S. Case No. 362 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
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6435 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 3/3 antecedent of even one case then it would be presumed that petitioners, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had 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.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T