Pawan Singh @ Bholu Singh @ Vishwajeet Kumar @ Vishvajeet Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.51617 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-344 Year-2026 Thana- MASHRAK District- Saran ====================================================== Pawan Singh @ Bholu Singh @ Vishwajeet Kumar @ Vishvajeet Kumar S/o Nawal Singh Resident of Village- Hemu Chapra, Matiyari, P.S.- Baikunthpur, Dist.- Gopalganj ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Sanjeet Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Md. Iftekhar Mahmood ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 24-07-2026 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 Section 111 of BNS and Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of two cases and allegation is of recovery of 457.92 litres of liquor from water plant of Arun Singh.

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 and even the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.51617 of 2026(2) dt.24-07-2026 2/3 and he has no concern or relation with Arun Singh and he came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone without holding a proper investigation.

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. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) 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 Mashrakh P.S. Case No. 344 of 2026, 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 more than two cases 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

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.51617 of 2026(2) dt.24-07-2026 3/3 anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of two cases in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T