Vikash Yadav v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13934 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-60 Year-2025 Thana- LAXMIPUR District- Jamui ====================================================== 1.
Vikash Yadav son of Matuki Yadav @ Matukdhari Yadav Resident of Village - Yadav tola Matiya, Ps- Laxmipur, Dist- Jamui 2.
Sanjay Yadav Son of Ragho Yadav Resident of Village - Yadav tola Matiya, Ps- Laxmipur, Dist- Jamui ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Pramod Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Ms. Shaheen Begum, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 12-03-2026
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 offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 40.500 liters of liquor from an abandoned house of petitioner no. 2.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners were not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and no one stays
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13934 of 2026(2) dt.12-03-2026 2/3 in the house which is abandoned and is accessible to villagers at large. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own premise for committing an occurrence and thus would create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated. It is also submitted that it might be a possibility that someone inimical to the family or knowing that the house is lying in an abandoned condition concealed meager amount of liquor and the police in a mechanical manner implicated the petitioners without holding a proper investigation.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.
6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Trial Court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on Provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Laxmipur P.S. Case No. 60 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the BNSS.
7. It is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioners and in the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13934 of 2026(2) dt.12-03-2026 3/3 event if it is found that any of the petitioners have antecedent of even one case then it would be presumed that petitioners, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed their antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T