Tarachand Chauhan @ Tarachand Noniya @ Tarak Chand Chauhan @ Tarak Chand Noniya v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.10532 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-459 Year-2024 Thana- RAFIGANJ District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Tarachand Chauhan @ Tarachand Noniya @ Tarak Chand Chauhan @ Tarak Chand Noniya S/O Late Prahlad Noniya R/O Village- Baligaon, P.SRafiganj, District- Aurangabad (Bihar). ... ... Petitioner/s
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The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Aman Vishal, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Rajesh Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER 22-03-2025
1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.
2. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of anticipatory bail apprehending his arrest in connection with Rafiganj P.S. Case no. 459 of 2024 registered under section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.
3. As per the prosecution case, on information having been received and a raid being conducted 14 litres of mahua liquor was recovered.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that no incriminating article has been recovered either from the petitioner's possession or from his house. He has been falsely implicated in the case. He has no criminal antecedent.
5. The application for anticipatory bail is opposed by learned A.P.P. for the State.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.10532 of 2025(2) dt.22-03-2025 2/2
6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the allegations in the F.I.R., neither the petitioner nor any of the person of his family having been arrested in the raid and especially the petitioner not having any antecedent under the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016, 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 Rafiganj P.S. Case no. 459 of 2024 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 Special Judge, Excise Court no. 1, Aurangabad. (Partha Sarthy, J) avinash/- U T