Dhodha Sahni @ Savru Sahni v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.56162 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-118 Year-2025 Thana- PATKHAULI District- West Champaran ====================================================== Dhodha Sahni @ Savru Sahni S/o Lalu Sahni R/o vill- Kailash Nagar, Ward No.07, P.S. - Patkhouli, District - West Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Milind Kumar Mishra, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Ramesh Chandra, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 02-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case instituted under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.
3. There is recovery of 14.500 litres of Indian made foreign liquor from a bag thrown by accused/petitioner who is alleged to have fled away on seeing the police in dark night.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case only on the basis of suspicion. Petitioner was neither apprehended on the spot nor he has any concern with the seized liquor. The alleged recovery was made from open place accessible by public at large. Nothing incriminating has been recovered from conscious possession of the petitioner. The
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.56162 of 2025(2) dt.02-09-2025 2/2 petitioner has one criminal antecedent in which he is on bail. Petitioner undertakes to cooperate in the investigation and the trial.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail.
6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Special Judge, Excise, Bagaha, West Champaran in connection with Patkhauli P.S. Case No.118 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) Harish/- U T