Vishandev Rai @ Visho Rai v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.37497 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-11 Year-2024 Thana- SARAI RANJAN District- Samastipur ====================================================== Vishandev Rai @ Visho Rai S/o Ramjeevan Rai @ Ramajivan Ray R/o Village- Dashara Manjha, PS- Mohanpur, Distt- Samastipur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Om Prakash Om For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Tarkeshwar Nath Thakur ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 17-06-2026 1.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 279, 337 and 427 of the IPC and Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act. 3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 610.20 litres of liquor from a pickup vehicle. 4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of the seized vehicle and came to be implicated in the case during the course of investigation with an allegation that he is driver of the vehicle. It is next submitted that it appears that the police

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.37497 of 2026(2) dt.17-06-2026 2/3 with a view to let off the real accused falsely implicated the petitioner when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.

5.

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

6.

Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on Provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds 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 Sarairanjan P.S. Case No. 11 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS. 7.

It is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner is a person with clean

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.37497 of 2026(2) dt.17-06-2026 3/3 antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T