Uma Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.29485 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-524 Year-2025 Thana- MUFFASIL District- West Champaran ====================================================== Uma Devi W/o Vijay Dhangar @ Brijesh Kumar Dhangar R/o Village- I.T.I. Colony ward no. 31, Jai Prakash Nagar, P.s.- Bettiah Muffasil, Distt.- West Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Brij Kishor Mishra For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms.Anita Kumari ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 25-06-2026 1.

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

2.

The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman and allegation is of recovery of 82 litres of liquor from an old dilapidated house.

4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from her conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a house which does not belong to the petitioner

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.29485 of 2026(3) dt.25-06-2026 2/3 and she came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar with whom her husband is on an inimical term. It is further submitted that in order to coerce her husband into submission, Chowkidar implicated the petitioner in the instant case. 5.

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

6.

Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on Provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Bettiah Mufassil P.S. Case No. 524 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS.

7.

It is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed her antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner is a

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.29485 of 2026(3) dt.25-06-2026 3/3 person with clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T