Rajat Kumar @ Karan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.7471 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-1116 Year-2025 Thana- DANAPUR District- Patna ====================================================== Rajat Kumar @ Karan S/O Sri Keshaw Rai R/O Vill.- Noorpur Chandmari, P.S.- Shahpur, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shyam Kishore, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms. Veena Kumari Jaiswal, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 19-02-2026

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 offences punishable under Sections 30(a) and 41 of the Bihar Excise Act read with Section 318(4) of the BNS, 2023.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 243 liters of liquor from a motorcycle and a Scooty.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of any of the seized vehicle and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Shila in police custody

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.7471 of 2026(2) dt.19-02-2026 2/3 which does not have any evidentiary value. It is also submitted that petitioner has no concern with Shila though she claims that petitioner is her tenant when petitioner is not.

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 for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his 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) 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 Danapur P.S. Case No. 1116 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 petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.7471 of 2026(2) dt.19-02-2026 3/3 verification if it is found that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T