Guddu Nut v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.40673 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-73 Year-2025 Thana- MADHAURAH District- Saran ====================================================== Guddu Nut S/o Bhagwan Nut R/o Village- Pakaha Nut Toli, (Asoiyan), P.S.- Marhowrah, District- Saran at Chapra ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Dewendra Narayan Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms. Indu Kumari Srivastava, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH MISHRA ORAL ORDER 27-06-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Marhowrah PS Case No. 73 of 2025 instituted for the offences under Sections 30(a), 32(1), 32(2), 38, 41(1) & 41(2) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3.

The prosecution case, in short, is that total 60 litres of liquor was recovered from two motorcycles. 4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case. The name of the petitioner transpired in this case on the basis of disclosure made by apprehended co-accused. Learned counsel for the petitioner, therefore, contends that prima-facie no case is

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.40673 of 2025(2) dt.27-06-2025 2/2 made out against the petitioner. The petitioner has got no concern with the alleged recovery of liquor. The petitioner has no criminal antecedent. There is no compliance of Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Other coaccused has been granted bail by this Court vide order dated 1803-2025, passed in Cr. Misc. No. 15406 of 2025. 5.

Learned APP for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail to the petitioner. 6.

Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioner above named, in the event of arrest/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/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Court below/concerned Court in connection with Marhowrah PS Case No. 73 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

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