Pappu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.25652 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-180 Year-2024 Thana- ARWAL District- Jehanabad ====================================================== Pappu Kumar S/o Late Ramnaresh Singh R/o Village- Hichachhan Bigha, P.S.- Daudnagar, District- Aurangabad ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Ranjay Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Satyendra Narayan Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 07-05-2025

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 Arwal Police Station Case No. 180 of 2024, dated 11.05.2024, disclosing offence under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

3. The prosecution case, as per the First Information Report, is that the police, during vehicle check, saw two persons coming on a motorcycle and signalled them to stop, but the persons fled away after throwing two bags and leaving behind the motorcycle. On search of the bags, the police recovered 22 litres of illicit country-made liquor.

4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.25652 of 2025(2) dt.07-05-2025 2/3 this case merely because he happens to be the registered owner of the motorcycle in question. He further submits that his friend had borrowed his motorcycle and he had no knowledge about the illicit liquor being transported on his motorcycle. He further submits that the petitioner has no concern with the seized illicit liquor and he has got no criminal antecedent.

5. Regards being had to the submission advanced on behalf of the parties concerned and taking into consideration the fact that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent and he has been made accused on the basis of being the registered owner of the motorcycle, which was borrowed by his friend, 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 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. II, Jehanabad, in connection with Arwal Police Station Case No. 180 of 2024, subject to the condition

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.25652 of 2025(2) dt.07-05-2025 3/3 laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

(Anil Kumar Sinha, J.) Prabhakar Anand/- U √ T √