Sonu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.63072 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-117 Year-2025 Thana- SRIPUR District- Gopalganj ====================================================== Sonu Kumar S/O Valai Das R/O Dularpur, Shripur Colony, P.S.- Shripur, District- Gopalganj.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Lokesh Kumar Singh, Advocate Mrs. Shambhavi Suyesha, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Rajendra Nath Jha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER 24-09-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of anticipatory bail apprehending his arrest in connection with Sripur P.S. Case no.117 of 2025, registered under section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

3. As per the prosecution case, seeing the police personnel, it is stated that the petitioner along with one another who were travelling on a motorcycle thew away a bag which they were carrying and managed to escape. On search of the bag, 35.2 litres of country liquor was recovered.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that no bag as alleged was thrown by the petitioner nor any incriminating article recovered from his possession. The

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.63072 of 2025(2) dt.24-09-2025 2/2 petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case. He has no criminal antecedent.

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

6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the allegations against the petitioner in the F.I.R, no incriminating article having been recovered from the petitioner's possession and the petitioner not having any criminal antecedent, it is directed that the petitioner above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Sripur P.S. Case no.117 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 Additional Sessions Judge-XIII-cumSpecial Judge, Excise Court no.1, Gopalganj. (Partha Sarthy, J) Shiv/- U T