Manoj Kumar Keshari @ Manoj Keshri v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.17764 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-618 Year-2025 Thana- RAMNAGAR District- West Champaran ====================================================== Manoj Kumar Keshari @ Manoj Keshri Son of Kishori Keshari R/o Village - Belashpur, Police Station - Ramnagar, District - West Champaran. ... ... Petitioner/s
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The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Prerna Anand, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Anand Kishore Choudhary, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 05-05-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 7 of E.C. Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that PDS license of the petitioner was cancelled on allegation of black marketing and the petitioner was directed to hand over to POS machine and grain to the dealer with whom his licence was tagged, the petitioner handed over the POS machine but it is alleged that he did not hand over the grain, i.e., 141.16 quintal wheat and 385.93 qunital of rice as recorded.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17764 of 2026(2) dt.05-05-2026 2/3 instant case by the informant, it is next submitted that from perusal of the F.I.R., it would manifest that license of the petitioner was cancelled and thereafter, on 19.05.2025, his license was tagged with one PDS of Shashi Prabha, it is thus submitted that the PDS licnece was cancelled before 19.05.2025 and thereafter the instant F.I.R. came to be instituted on 11.10.2025, i.e., 5 months after the shop of the petitioner was tagged with the PDS shop of Shashi Prabha, which casts an aspersion on the case of prosecution, it is also submitted that if privilege of anticipatory bail is granted, the petitioner will not abscond rather will cooperate in the investigation to prove his innocence.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner.
7. Let the petitioner, as named above, in the event of his arrest or surrender within four weeks from today, be enlarged on bail 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 S.D.J.M., Bagaha, West Champaran,
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17764 of 2026(2) dt.05-05-2026 3/3 in connection with Ramnagar P.S. Case No. 618 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure/Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
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