Kamendra Kumar @ Kamender Kumar @ Kavindra Kumar @ Kavendra Yadav v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.24050 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-705 Year-2020 Thana- MASAUDHI District- Patna ====================================================== Kamendra Kumar @ Kamender Kumar @ Kavindra Kumar @ Kavendra Yadav S/o- Devendra Yadav @ Devendar Yadav Resident of Village- Badroi, Police station-Masaurhi, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s
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The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Ravi Shanker Pankaj For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Nagendra Prasad ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 30-04-2025
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 Sections 30(a) and 30(c) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of two cases and allegation is of recovery of 40 litres of liquor from a place near bank of Morhar river. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated based on secret information
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.24050 of 2025(2) dt.30-04-2025 2/3 which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is also submitted that once an accused is implicated in a case relating to excise the police starts implicating mechanically without proper investigation.
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 before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees ten 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 Massaurhi P.S. Case No.705/2020, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
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 two cases, 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.24050 of 2025(2) dt.30-04-2025 3/3 on verification it is found that petitioner has antecedent of two cases, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T