Arvind Kumar Singh @ Arvind Singh v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.49446 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-642 Year-2025 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Arvind Kumar Singh @ Arvind Singh S/o Devraj Singh R/o Village- Chain Bigha, PS- Muffasil, District- Aurangabad Bihar ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Ms.Rupa Kumari For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Shailendra Kumar Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 11-08-2025 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 30(a) and 30(c) 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 25 litres of liquor along with 300 kg of Jawa Mahua from a bamboo orchard of the petitioner.
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. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own premises for committing an occurrence and thus would get implicated. It is
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.49446 of 2025(2) dt.11-08-2025 2/3 further submitted that it appears that someone inimical to the petitioenr had concealed the liquor in the orchard of the petitioner and petitioner came to be implicated at the instance of local person. It is reiterated and submitted that petitioner 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 before the learned trial court 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 Excise P.S. Case No. 642 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 his antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.49446 of 2025(2) dt.11-08-2025 3/3 confirmed, but after verification if 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) Sumit/- U T