Ranjeet Yadav @ Ranjit Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31463 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-1359 Year-2025 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Gaya ====================================================== RANJEET YADAV @ RANJIT YADAV S/o- Visheshar Yadav R/v- Chattu Bigha Ps- Vishnupad Dist- Gaya ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Nafisu Zzoha For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Ram Priya Sharan Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 12-05-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 30(a) and 32(3) of Bihar Prohibition & Excise Act, 2016.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 26.820 litres of foreign liquor from an auto.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the present case, it is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested on the spot and as such nothing was recovered from conscious possession of the petitioner and he came to be implicated based on the fact that he is owner of the seized vehicle, it is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31463 of 2026(2) dt.12-05-2026 2/2 committing a crime and thus, would create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated. it is further submitted that petitioner was completely unaware that the driver would misuse the vehicle in the manner as alleged as he was also apprehended at the spot along with liquor.

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

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

7. Let the petitioner, as named above, in the event of his arrest or surrender within four weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Excise No.3, Gaya in connection with Gaya Excise P.S. Case No. 1359 of 2026, subject to the conditions laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure/Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) sanjeev/- U