Bajrangi Kumar Paswan @ Bajrangi Paswan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.14366 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-339 Year-2021 Thana- BIHIA District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Bajrangi Kumar Paswan @ Bajrangi Paswan S/o- Basist Paswan Resident of Village- Makhdumpur, P.S.- Bihiya, District- Bhojpur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ajay Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Md. Iftekhar Mahmood, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER 28-03-2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. The petitioner in this application prays for grant of anticipatory bail apprehending his arrest in connection with Bihia P.S. Case no. 339 of 2021 registered for the offence punishable under section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

3. As per the prosecution case, on a secret information having received a raid was conducted and one Mohan Paswan was arrested. 70 litres of liquor in the process of being manufactured was seized. It is further stated that on enquiry the accused who were caught disclosed that the utensil etc. all belonged to three named accused persons including the petitioner herein.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case. From the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.14366 of 2025(2) dt.28-03-2025 2/2 contents of the FIR itself it would transpire that neither the petitioner was arrested at the spot nor any incriminating article recovered from his possession. The cause of his false implication is his antecedent. He undertakes to cooperate in the case/trial.

5. The application for bail is opposed by learned APP for the State.

6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the allegation in the F.I.R., no incriminating article having been recovered from the petitioner's possession and the only material against the petitioner being the statement of the coaccused made before the police, it is directed that the petitioner above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Bihia P.S. Case no. 339 of 2021 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Excise Court no.1, Bhojpur at Ara.

(Partha Sarthy, J) Bibhash U T