Mithu @ Kaif Ansari v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.11304 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-193 Year-2025 Thana- KUNDWACHAINPUR District- East Champaran ====================================================== MITHU @ KAIF ANSARI S/o- Kayamuddin Ansari Resident of villageSisahani Ps-Kundwachainpur District-East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mrs.Shaheen Begum, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH MISHRA ORAL ORDER 13-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Kundwa Chainpur P.S. case No. 193 of 2025 registered under Sections 30(a), 32 and 41(1) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. The prosecution allegation, in short, is that 378 liters liquor was recovered from two motorcycles.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the present case. The petitioner has got no criminal antecedent. No incriminating material has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner. It is further submitted that the name of the petitioner has transpired on the basis of disclosure made by apprehended co-accused. The petitioner has got no knowledge and concern with the alleged recovery of liquor. The

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.11304 of 2026(2) dt.13-02-2026 2/2 motorcycles in question do not belong to the petitioner. Learned counsel, therefore, submits that prima facie, no case is made out against the petitioner. There is no compliance of Section 103 of B.N.S.S., 2023. Co-accused has been granted regular bail by this Bench vide order dated 01.11.2025 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 60159 of 2025.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail to the petitioner.

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioner, above named, in the event of arrest/surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.15,000/- (fifteen thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Court below/concerned Court in connection with Kundwa Chainpur P.S. case No. 193 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

(Rudra Prakash Mishra, J) Pankaj/- U T