Prabhu Chaudhary v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.9415 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-390 Year-2024 Thana- SAHPUR District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Prabhu Chaudhary, Male, aged about 33 years, son of Late Bahadur Chaudhary @ Late Bahadur Bin, resident of village- Hariharpur, PS- Sahpur District -Bhojpur ... ... Petitioner/s
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The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Raju Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Damodar Prasad Tiwary, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 06-03-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Sahpur PS Case No.390 of 2024 dated 15.12.2024, instituted under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.
3. Allegation is of recovery of 14 litres Mahua liquor from a lane situated in front of the house of the petitioner.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that nothing has been recovered either from the conscious possession or from the house of the petitioner. Recovery has been made from a lane situated in front of the house of the petitioner. Lastly, it is submitted that the petitioner has no criminal
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.9415 of 2025(2) dt.06-03-2025 2/2 antecedents.
5. Learned APP has opposed the prayer for bail.
6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Judge, Excise Court No. II, Bhojpur at Ara, in Sahpur PS Case No.390 of 2024, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
7. The application stands allowed.
(Khatim Reza, J) J. Alam/- U T