Vikram Sahni v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.65640 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-154 Year-2025 Thana- KAMTAUL District- Darbhanga ====================================================== Vikram Sahni S/o Saguni Sahni Resident of Village- Ganauli Tole, Tataila, P.S.- Kamtaul, Dist- Darbhanga ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Saurav Anand For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Lakshmi Kant Sharma ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK KUMAR PANDEY ORAL ORDER 24-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Kamtaul P.S. Case No. 154 of 2025 registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. As per prosecution case, informant got secret information that petitioner and other were transporting illicit liquor and upon verification, 579 litre Nepali liquor was recovered from the scorpio in question.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that name of the petitioner came to fore on the basis of secret information but the source of secret information has not been divulged in the FIR, which questions the authenticity of the prosecution story. Petitioner is neither owner nor driver of the scorpio in question. Learned counsel

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65640 of 2025(2) dt.24-09-2025 2/2 submits that seizure list has not been prepared as per law. Learned counsel submits that petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence as alleged in the FIR and he has falsely been implicated in this case. Petitioner bears no criminal antecedent. Nothing has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner.

5. The learned A.P.P. for the State vehemently opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, keeping in view clean antecedent of petitioner, argument advanced on behalf of both sides and also taking into consideration the material available on record, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Special Judge-I (Excise Act), Darbhanga in connection with Kamtaul P.S. Case No. 154 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of B.N.S.S.

(Alok Kumar Pandey, J) vashudha/- U T