Farhaz Ara v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.57021 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-448 Year-2021 Thana- BARAUNI District- Begusarai ====================================================== Farhaz Ara Wife of Alimuddin Ansari @ Alamudin Ansari Resident of village - Bachkonna (Bachkoma), Post - Munkeri, P.S.- Chhatarpur, District - Palamu (Jharkhand).

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sandip Kumar Gautam, Adv For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Suresh Prasad Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 08-09-2025 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 & Excise Act.

3. As per the prosecution case, 76.500 litres of illegal foreign liquor was recovered from a Honda City car of the petitioner which was driven by the co-accused Ashwin Lakra.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case due to being registered owner of the said vehicle. The petitioner car was driven by the co-accused Ashwin Lakra and petitioner had no knowledge about the misdeed of the coaccused Ashwin Lakra. He Further submits that the apprehended accused not made any allegation against the petitioner with

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.57021 of 2025(2) dt.08-09-2025 2/2 respect to his involvement in the offence. The petitioner has clean antecedent. Petitioner undertakes to cooperate in the investigation and trial. Co-accused Saurav Kumar Sahu and Santosh Kumar Singh have already been granted anticipatory bail by the Co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 18.08.2022 in Cr. Mis.No. 34240 of 2022 and dated 13.09.2022 in Cr. Misc No. 47401 of 2022 respectively.

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 Excise Judge-I, Begusarai in connection with Barauni P.S. Case No. 448 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S., 2023. (Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) krishnakant/- U T