Vidya Bhushan Kumar @ Satish Kumar @ Santosh Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.57617 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-115 Year-2023 Thana- PATNA COMPLAINT CASE DistrictPatna ====================================================== Vidya Bhushan Kumar @ Satish Kumar @ Santosh Kumar S/O Kripa Nand Prasad @ Kripananda Prasad Resident of Village- Pakadi, P.S.- Mashaurhi, District Patna ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
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The State of Bihar 2.
Surendra Ram, Drug Inspector, Patna Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Yogesh Chandra Verma, Sr. Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Jitendra Kumar Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY ORAL ORDER 15-09-2025 Heard the parties.
2. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in connection with Complaint Case No. 115(O) of 2023 instituted under Sections 27(b)(ii) & 28 A of Drugs and Cosmetic Act, 1940 lodged by the Drug Inspector, Surendra Ram.
3. As per the prosecution story, the Drug Inspector conducted a raid in the Mashaurhi area and found number of drug stored in huge quantity of medicines being sold out without any valid license/documents. This led to the FIR.
4. Learned Senior Counsel submits that he neither owns the premises nor medicine shop, his signature is not in the seizure list and only on assumption, has been dragged in the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.57617 of 2025(2) dt.15-09-2025 2/2 case.
5. Learned APP on the other hand has submitted that the FIR was lodged in January, 2023, he has moved before this Court as also the learned Sessions Judge only after two and half years, the quantity seized from the store is huge, the enquiry report clearly shows that it was the petitioner who was conducting the said shop.
6. Considering the submissions of the parties as also the materials on record, certainly, this is not a fit case for extending the anticipatory bail application to the petitioner. Accordingly, the same is rejected.
7. If, however, the petitioner surrenders within a period of four weeks from today and prays for bail, the same shall be taken up and dispose of preferably on the same day. (Rajiv Roy, J) Ravi/- U T