Rukmani Devi @ Rukmini Devi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31959 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-581 Year-2025 Thana- ALAMGANJ District- Patna ====================================================== Rukmani Devi @ Rukmini Devi W/O Manik Chand @ Manik Chanda Prasad Resident Of Green Carpet School Ke Samne Gur Ki Mandi, Arfabad Colony, Gulzarbagh, P.S.- Alamganj, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/S
Versus
The State Of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Shyam Kumar Chaudhary For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Rana Randhir Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 13-05-2026
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 offence punishable under Sections 30(a), 37 of Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of one case under the Excise Act and is a woman and allegation is of recovery of 5.6 litres of liquor from a place near Kali Mandir at Pitambara Temple colony. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from her conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and she came to be implicated based on secret
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31959 of 2026(2) dt.13-05-2026 2/3 information 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 either through chowkidar, local person, confessional statement or secret information without holding a 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 her arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.5000/- (Rupees five 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 Alamganj P.S. Case No.581/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
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 one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed her antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31959 of 2026(2) dt.13-05-2026 3/3 on verification it is found that petitioner has antecedent of one case, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T