Veer Bahadur Pandey @ Vir Bahadur Pandey v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.32379 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-496 Year-2024 Thana- PAHARPUR District- East Champaran ====================================================== Veer Bahadur Pandey @ Vir Bahadur Pandey S/O Late Balram Pandey R/O Village- Bankatwa, P.S- Paharpur, District- East Champaran. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Abhishek Ranjan, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Md. Anzarul Haque Sahara, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH MISHRA ORAL ORDER 13-05-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Paharpur PS Case No. 496 of 2024 instituted for the offences under Sections 30(a), 41(1) and 52 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3.

The prosecution case, in short, is that total 36.4 litres of foreign liquor was recovered from E-Rickshaw. 4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the present case. No incriminating material has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner. The petitioner has got no concern with the alleged recovery of liquor. It is submitted

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.32379 of 2025(2) dt.13-05-2025 2/2 that e-rickshaw in question does not belong to the petitioner. The petitioner has got one criminal antecedent. There is no compliance of Section 103 of B.N.S.S. Other co-accused has been enlarged on regular bail by this Court vide order dated 2901-2025, passed in Cr. Misc. No. 3711 of 2025. 5.

On the other hand, learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail to the petitioner. 6.

Considering the rival submissions made by the learned counsel for the parties, let 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 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 court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Paharpur PS Case No. 496 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the BNSS.

(Rudra Prakash Mishra, J) Raj Kishore/- U T