Ravi Prasad v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.38974 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-191 Year-2026 Thana- PATLIPUTRA District- Patna ====================================================== Ravi Prasad S/o Chandeswar Prasad R/o Indrapuri, Road No. 2, Near Baba Chauk, P.S.- Patliputra, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Asfar Imam For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms.Asha Devi ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 18-06-2026

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(A) of the Excise Act.

3. It is next submitted that inadvertently at Para-4, it has been pleaded that petitioner is in custody since 13.04.2026, when petitioner is seeking anticipatory bail. It is thus submitted that petitioner be permitted to delete Para-4 from anticipatory bail application during course of the day.

4. Permission is accorded.

5. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 35 litres of liquor from a motorcycle.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.38974 of 2026(2) dt.18-06-2026 2/3

6. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of the seized motorcycle and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of apprehended accused in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value.

7. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail application.

8. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner, above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on provisional anticipatory bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum 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 Patliputra P. S. Case No.191 of 2026, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

9. The application stands allowed.

10.

It is made clear that the learned trial Court after accepting the provisional bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event,

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.38974 of 2026(2) dt.18-06-2026 3/3 if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, then it would be presumed that petitioner for the purposes of obtaining anticipatory bail had concealed his antecedent before this Court, in that event, the present provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but if on verification, it is found that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent, in that event, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T