Pankaj Kumar Sahani @ Pankaj Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.55604 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-221 Year-2025 Thana- SUGAULI District- East Champaran ====================================================== Pankaj Kumar Sahani @ Pankaj Kumar S/o Acchelal Sahani @ Achchhelal Sahni R/o Village- Mehwa, P.S.- Sugauli, District- East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Kundan Rathore@ Kundan Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Anant Kumar 1, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH MISHRA ORAL ORDER 08-08-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Sugauli PS Case No. 221 of 2025 instituted for the offences under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition ane Excise Act.

3.

The prosecution case, in short, is that total 80 litres of liquor was recovered from maize field.

4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case. The name of the petitioner transpired in this case on the basis of disclosure made by local chowkidar. The petitioner has got no concern with the alleged recovery of liquor. The petitioner has

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.55604 of 2025(2) dt.08-08-2025 2/2 one criminal antecedent. Learned counsel for the petitioner, therefore, contends that prima-facie no case is made out against the petitioner. There is no compliance of Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Other co-accused has been granted bail by this Court vide order dated 10-07-2025, passed in Cr. Misc. No. 43584 of 2024.

5.

Learned APP for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail to the petitioner. 6.

Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioner above named, in the event of arrest/surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.15,000/- (Fifteen thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Court below/concerned Court in connection with Sugauli PS Case No. 221 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

(Rudra Prakash Mishra, J) Raj Kishore/- U T