Virendra Ram @ Birendra Ram v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.18542 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-532 Year-2022 Thana- KOILWAR District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Virendra Ram @ Birendra Ram S/o Bhartari Ram Resident of Village - Chainpura, Police Station - Koilwar, District - Bhojpur ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Akash Kumar Mishra For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Parmanand Prasad ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 08-04-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. This application for grant of anticipatory bail arises out of Koilwar Police Station Case No. 532 of 2022, dated 18.08.2022, disclosing offence under Sections 30(a)/37 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.
3. The prosecution case, as per the First Information Report, is that the police, on secret information that three persons were coming on a motorcycle with illicit liquor, reached near Chainpura and saw three persons coming on a motorcycle. The police signaled them to stop, but the persons, after leaving the motorcycle, started fleeing away, but the police apprehended one of them while the other two persons succeeded in fleeing away. The
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.18542 of 2026(2) dt.08-04-2026 2/3 apprehended person disclosed his name as Amar Kumar and also disclosed the name of the persons who fled away as the petitioner and Degree Kushwaha. On search of the motorcycle, the police recovered 10 litres of illicit country-made mahua liquor.
4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case on the disclosure of his name by the arrested coaccused person. He further submits that the petitioner has got no concern with the illicit liquor recovered inasmuch as the motorcycle, in question, does not belong to the petitioner.
5. Regards being had to the submission advanced on behalf of the parties concerned and taking into consideration the fact that the name of the petitioner has been disclosed by the arrested co-accused person and the motorcycle, from which illicit liquor has been recovered, does not belong to the petitioner, I am inclined to grant the petitioner privilege of anticipatory bail.
6. This application is, accordingly, allowed.
7. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within four weeks, be
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.18542 of 2026(2) dt.08-04-2026 3/3 released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Exclusive Special Excise Court No. 2, Bhojpur, at Ara, in connection with Koilwar Police Station Case No. 532 of 2022, subject to the condition laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
(Anil Kumar Sinha, J.) Prabhakar Anand/- U √ T √