Sonu Sah @ Sonu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.55646 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-179 Year-2025 Thana- SATHI District- West Champaran ====================================================== Sonu Sah @ Sonu Kumar S/o Jiyut Sah Resident of Village - Dhrampur, PSSathi, Dist- West Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Vatsal Verma, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mrs. Asha Kumari, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 01-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in a case registered under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. As per the prosecution case, 1.8 litres illicit liquor hanging in a white bag was recovered from the backside of the shop of the petitioner. It is alleged that this petitioner managed to flee away from the spot, after seeing the police.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence. Further submission is that petitioner is owner of snack shop and on the date of occurrence, informant along with others came to shop of the petitioner, ate some snacks and when petitioner demanded the money, he was threatened with dire consequences and

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.55646 of 2025(2) dt.01-09-2025 2/2 informant in order to satisfy his personal vendetta, falsely implicated the petitioner in the present case. Petitioner has no concern with the seized illicit liquor. Nothing has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner. Petitioner has three criminal antecedents out of which, one belongs to Excise Act and in all the three cases, he is on bail. Petitioner undertakes to cooperate in the investigation and 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 upon furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Judge, Excise Court-II, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Sathi P.S. Case No. 179 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S., 2023.

(Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) utkarsh/- U T