Jaikali Devi @ Jaykal Devi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.7441 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-227 Year-2025 Thana- Gadhiya Bazar District- East Champaran ====================================================== Jaikali Devi @ Jaykal Devi w/o Babulal Manjhi R/o Village - Koilaraha, Ward No. 08, P.S - Garahiya Bazar, District - East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s
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The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Ms. Usha Kumari For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Md. Nazir Ansari ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 15-04-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman and allegation is of recovery of 130 litres of liquor from a place behind the house of Ranjit Manjhi and 107.5 litres of liquor from courtyard of Sitaram Manjhi. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from her conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and she came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.7441 of 2026(2) dt.15-04-2026 2/3 whom her husband Babulal Manjhi is on an inimical term. It is also submitted that chowkidar falsely implicated the petitioner with a view to coerce her husband into submission.
4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender 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 Garahiya Bazar P.S. Case No.227/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
6. It is made clear that the learned trial court thereafter shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed her antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if on verification it is found that petitioner is a person with clean
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.7441 of 2026(2) dt.15-04-2026 3/3 antecedent, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T