Ranjay Yadav @ Ranjan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.24798 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-477 Year-2025 Thana- Arwal District- Arwal ====================================================== 1.
Ranjay Yadav @ Ranjan Kumar son of Kamlesh Yadav R/O Vill.- Bhedriya english, P.S.- Paliganj, Dist.- Patna 2.
Ghamandi Yadav S/O Triveni Yadav R/O Vill.- Bhedriya english, P.S.- Paliganj, Dist.- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Sanjay Kumar Mishra For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Sanjay Kumar Sharma ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 20-04-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioners seek bail in anticipation of their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a)(c)(d) of the Excise Act.
3. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 122 litres of liquor along with 1200 litres of jawa mahua from a place near bank of Sone river.
4. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners were not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and even alleged
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.24798 of 2026(2) dt.20-04-2026 2/3 recovery is from a place, which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large and they came to be implicated at the instance of Chaukidar, but then, it is submitted that if Chaukidar was aware of the involvement of the petitioners in the occurrence, then why he did not inform the police prior to institution of the present F.I.R., which cast an aspersion on the case of the prosecution, when admittedly petitioners are persons with clean antecedent. It is next submitted that it appears that the Chaukidar in order to save the real culprit falsely implicated the petitioners. It is next submitted that police in majority of cases implicating innocent persons either at the behest of Chaukidar, local person, secret information and confessional statement in a mechanical manner without holding a proper investigation.
5. 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 Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on provisional anticipatory bail on their furnishing bail-bonds in the sum 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
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.24798 of 2026(2) dt.20-04-2026 3/3 connection with Arwal P. S. Case No.477 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.
6. The application stands allowed.
7. It is made clear that the learned trial Court after accepting the provisional bail bonds of the petitioners shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioners and in the event, if it is found that petitioners have antecedent of even one case, then it would be presumed that petitioners for the purposes of obtaining anticipatory bail had concealed their antecedent before this Court, in that event, the present provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but if on verification, 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) vikash/- U T