Reeta Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.47778 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-752 Year-2025 Thana- HARSIDHI District- East Champaran ====================================================== Reeta Devi Wife of Munna Chaudhary Resident of Village- Math Lohiyar Gaddi Tola, P.S.- Harsidhi, District- East Champaran (Bihar) ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Pramod Kumar Prasad For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Shyam Bihari Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 15-07-2026 1.

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

2.

The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under 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 is a woman and allegation is of recovery of 24 litres of liquor from a place near the house of Munna Chaudhary.

4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from her conscious possession and she came to be implicated based on the fact that recovery was made from a place adjacent to her house and she came to be implicated at the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.47778 of 2026(2) dt.15-07-2026 2/3 instance of Chowkidar with whom her husband (Munna Chaudhary) is on an inimical term. It is further submitted that chowkidar implicated the petitioner with a view to coerce Munna Chaudhary into submission.

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 her 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 Harsidhi P.S. Case No. 752 of 2025, 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 her 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 antecedent in that event the provisional

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.47778 of 2026(2) dt.15-07-2026 3/3 anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T