Vidya Sagar Singh @ Dablu Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.18728 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-864 Year-2024 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Vidya Sagar Singh @ Dablu Singh S/o Bali Singh R/o Basa Bigha, P.S.- Madanpur, District- Aurangabad.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Ms. Mukul Kumari, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Md. Nazir Ansari, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH MISHRA ORAL ORDER 30-07-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with G.R. No. 1516 of 2024 arising out of Excise P.S. Case No. 864 of 2024 instituted for the offences under Sections 30(a) and 32(3) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that total 245 litres of spirit was recovered from TATA Tiago Car bearing Regd No. JH04M-4720.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case. The name of the petitioner transpired in this case on the basis of secret information. Learned counsel further submitted that petitioner is neither the owner nor the driver of the vehicle. The

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.18728 of 2025(3) dt.30-07-2025 2/2 petitioner has got no concern with the alleged recovery of liquor. Learned counsel for the petitioner, therefore, contends that prima-facie no case is made out against the petitioner. The petitioner has two criminal antecedents in which he is on bail. There is no compliance of Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

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

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, 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.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Court below/concerned Court in connection with G.R. No. 1516 of 2024 arising out of Excise P.S. Case No. 864 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

(Rudra Prakash Mishra, J) Raj Ranjan/- U T