Chintu Kumar @ Santu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.12644 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-8 Year-2026 Thana- TETERHAT District- Lakhisarai ====================================================== 1.
Chintu Kumar @ Santu Kumar S/o Bhola Chaudhary R/O- Navadih, P.S.- Tetrahat, Dist- Lakhisarai 2.
Khushboo Kumari W/o Chintu Kumar @ Santu Kumar R/O- Navadih, P.S.- Tetrahat, Dist- Lakhisarai ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Shashank Shekhar For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Pradeep Narain Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 10-03-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner no.1 has antecedent of three cases under the Excise Act and petitioner no.2 is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman and allegation is of recovery of 5 litres of liquor from a place near the house of the petitioners. It is next submitted that petitioners were not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and even alleged
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.12644 of 2026(2) dt.10-03-2026 2/3 recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioners but then is adjacent to their house and they came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with whom petitioner no.1 is on an inimical term. It is also submitted that if chowkidar was aware of the involvement of the petitioners in the occurrence then why he did not inform the police prior to institution of the instant FIR which casts an aspersion on the case of the prosecution. It is also submitted that once an accused is implicated in a case relating to excise, the police starts implicating mechanically either through chowkidar, local person, confessional statement or secret information without holding a proper investigation.
4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.
5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.15,000/- (Rupees fifteen thousand) each 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 Teterhat P.S. Case No.08/2026, subject
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.12644 of 2026(2) dt.10-03-2026 3/3 to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
6. It is made clear that thereafter the learned trial court thereafter shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioners and in the event if it is found that petitioner no.1 has antecedent of more than three cases cases and petitioner no.2 has antecedent of even one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioners had concealed their antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed with respect to those petitioners whose criminal antecedent does not tally but if after verification the criminal antecedent as recorded hereinabove tallies with the petitioners in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T