Raveendra Singh v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.68990 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-714 Year-2025 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Raveendra Singh, aged about 54 years, Male, S/o Devraj Singh Resident of Village- Thawai, P.S.- Madanpur, District- Aurangabad ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Binod Kumar Pandey, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Ramesh Chandra, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 08-10-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Aurangabad Excise P.S. Case No. 714 of 2025 dated 06-07-2025, instituted under Sections 30(a) and 32(3) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.
3.The allegation is of recovery of 50 litres of Mahua liquor, which was allegedly kept in a bag (jhola) carried on a motorcycle bearing Registration No. BR-26M-5922 belonging to the petitioner.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is further submitted that no recovery has been made either from the conscious possession of the petitioner or
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.68990 of 2025(2) dt.08-10-2025 2/3 from his house; rather, the alleged illicit liquor was recovered from a motorcycle. It is emphatically submitted that although the petitioner is the registered owner of the seized motorcycle but he had already sold the said vehicle to Ajay Kumar, resident of Siman Rikyasan, through an affidavit dated 08.09.2020. A sale letter was also prepared in this regard, though the ownership has not yet been transferred. Photo copy of the sale letter dated 08.09.2020 is annexed as Annexure- P/2. This fact has been clearly recorded in paragraph nos. 27 and 28 of the case diary. Lastly, it is submitted that the petitioner has no criminal antecedents.
5. Learned APP has opposed the prayer for bail.
6. Having considered 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 bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Special Judge Excise- II, Aurangabad/ successor Court Aurangabad in Aurangabad Excise PS Case No. 714 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023.
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7. The application stands allowed.
(Khatim Reza, J) shyambihari/- U