Vikas Kumar @ Anand Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.36221 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-53 Year-2025 Thana- Mufassil District- Khagaria ====================================================== Vikas Kumar @ Anand Kumar S/o Late Narayan Yadav R/o Village- Nankhu Mandal Tola, P.S.- Muffasil, District- Khagaria ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shashank Shekhar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Umeshanand Pandit ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 18-06-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. This application for grant of anticipatory bail arises out of Muffasil Police Station Case No. 53 of 2025, dated 12.04.2025, disclosing offence under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018.

3. The prosecution case, as per the First Information Report, is that the police, on secret information that the petitioner and other accused persons are indulged in selling illicit liquor, which has been kept near the house of the petitioner at Nankhu Mandal Tola, reached at the place of occurrence and saw that one person, on seeing the the police, started fleeing away and succeeded in it. Upon search, the police recovered 42.750 liters of foreign liquor

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.36221 of 2025(2) dt.18-06-2025 2/3 from five cartons hidden under hay. The local villagers disclosed the name of the petitioner.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case due to oblique motive and village politics. The name of the petitioner has transpired on the basis of disclosure by the local villagers. He next submits that illicit liquor does nto belong to the petitioner and the same has not been been recovered from conscious possession of the petitioner and/or from the premises belonging to him. Rather, illicit liquor has been recovered from behind the house, which is open space accessible to all and sundry. The petitioner has got no criminal antecedent.

5. Regards being had to the submission made by the parties and taking into consideration the fact that the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent, name of the petitioner has transpired on the basis of disclosure by local villagers and illicit liquor has not been recovered from inside the premises of the petitioner, rather, the same has been recovered from open space accessible to all and sundry, I am inclined to grant the petitioner privilege of anticipatory bail.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.36221 of 2025(2) dt.18-06-2025 3/3

6. This application is, accordingly, allowed.

7. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within four weeks, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Judge Excise I, Khagaria, in connection with Muffasil Police Station Case No. 53 of 2025, subject to the condition laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

(Anil Kumar Sinha, J) ashwani/- U T