Arvind Bharti @ Arwindra Bharti v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.45752 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-176 Year-2025 Thana- PIPRAHI District- Sheohar ====================================================== 1.
Arvind Bharti @ Arwindra Bharti son of Kameshwar Bharti Resident of Village - Dekuli Dharampur Ps- Piprahi, Dist- Sheohar 2.
Shivam Kumar son of Bigan Bharti @ Lalu Bharti Resident of Village - Dekuli Dharampur Ps- Piprahi, Dist- Sheohar ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Uday Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Bishweshwar Ram ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 10-07-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 191(2), 190, 126(2), 115(2), 192 of the BNS, 2023 and Section 45 of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2022.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 3.900 litres of liquor from room of the guard at Water tank.
4. Learned counsel submits petitioners were not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.45752 of 2026(2) dt.10-07-2026 2/3 conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioners ands is accessible to public at large and they came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with whom they are on an inimical term.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.
6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their 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) each 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 Piprahi P.S. Case No.176 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
7. It is made clear that thereafter the learned trial court thereafter shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioners and in the event if it is found that petitioners have antecedent of even one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioners had concealed their antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.45752 of 2026(2) dt.10-07-2026 3/3 confirmed but if after verification it is found that petitioners are person with clean antecedent, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. (Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T