Ravi Jee @ Sunil Kumar Gupta v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.26448 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-434 Year-2025 Thana- Sahayak Khajanchi District- Purnia ====================================================== Ravi Jee @ Sunil Kumar Gupta Son of Sita Ram R/v- Subhash Nagar, Ward No 12,Ps- Sahayak K.Hat, Dist- purnea ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Avinash Shekhar For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms. Meena Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 22-04-2026

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2022.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of one case and allegation is of recovery of 17.5 litres of liquor from a room of the house of petitioner. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and no prudent person would use his own premises for committing an occurrence and thus would create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated. It is next submitted that the room from which it is alleged that liquor was

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.26448 of 2026(2) dt.22-04-2026 2/3 recovered was given on rent to Rahul on rent of Rs.3500/- per month as would manifest from the agreement annexed as Annexure-2 to the anticipatory bail application but then police in mechanical manner investigates and implicates.

4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.5000/- (Rupees five thousand) 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 Sahayak Khajanchi P.S. Case No.434/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

6. It is made clear that the learned trial court thereafter shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more than one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.26448 of 2026(2) dt.22-04-2026 3/3 on verification it is found that petitioner has antecedent of one case, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T