Paskal Ekka v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.46067 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-692 Year-2024 Thana- PATNA GRP CASE District- Patna ====================================================== Paskal Ekka S/o Stephan ekka R/o Village- Kshetaki, P.S.-Bhandariya, District-Garhwa (Jharkhand) ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
1.
The State of Bihar 2.
The Director, Vigilance Investigation Bureau, Govt. of Bihar, Patna Patna ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Dewendra Narayan Singh, Adv.
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Ajay Kumar Jha, APP For the Vigilance : Mr. Rana Vikram Singh, Adv. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 17-12-2025
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State as well as learned counsel appearing on behalf of the Vigilance.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022. Later on Sections 41, 44, 51 and 52 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, Sections 199, 212, 229(2), 61(2) of the BNS, 2023 and Sections 07 and 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 were added.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 30.75 litres of liquor from two trolleys from
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.46067 of 2025(4) dt.17-12-2025 2/3 Platform No.1 of Rajendra Nagar Railway Station. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone without holding a proper investigation.
4. Learned A.P.P. for the State and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the Vigilance opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
5. 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 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 Rajendra Nagar Rail P.S. Case No.692/2024, Vigilance Case No.14/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
6. It is made clear that the learned trial court thereafter
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.46067 of 2025(4) dt.17-12-2025 3/3 shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this court, as such, the 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) amit/- U T