Reema Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.62776 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-64 Year-2025 Thana- KOTWA District- East Champaran ====================================================== Reema Devi W/o Nandu Manjhi @ Nannu Manjhi R/o Village- Kalyan Khas (Kalyanpur Khas), P.S.- Kotwa, District- East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ajay Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Upendra Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER 24-09-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. The petitioner in this application prays for bail apprehending her arrest in connection with Kotwa P.S. Case no.64 of 2025 registered for the offence punishable under section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

3. As per the prosecution case, seeing the police personnel while the petitioner managed to escape, on search, 30 litres of country liquor was recovered from the house of the petitioner.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner who happens to be a lady has been falsely implicated in the case. No incriminating article has been recovered either from the petitioner's possession or from her house and the petitioner has no criminal antecedent.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.62776 of 2025(2) dt.24-09-2025 2/2

5. The application for bail is opposed by learned A.P.P. for the State.

6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the allegation against the petitioner in the FIR, the petitioner not having been arrested at the spot and no incriminating article having been recovered from the petitioner's possession, it is directed that the petitioner, above named, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Kotwa P.S. Case no.64 of 2025 on 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 Excise Court no.1, East Champaran at Motihari.

(Partha Sarthy, J) Saurabh/- U T