Zakrul @ Md. Zakrul v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.67124 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-302 Year-2025 Thana- BAISI District- Purnia ====================================================== Zakrul @ Md. Zakrul, S/o- Ajabul Nandarkh R/o- Dagarua Ps- Dagarua DistPurnea ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr.Yogendra Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 24-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Baisi P.S. Case No. 302 of 2025 dated 21.07.2025 instituted for the offence punishable under Sections 30(a), 41, 47 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2022.

3. The allegation is of recovery of total 77 litres foreign liquor from a Toto vehicle bearing Registration No. BR11RA 1848.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in this case. It is further submitted that the petitioner has not been arrested on the spot. Nothing has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner or from his house rather

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.67124 of 2025(2) dt.24-09-2025 2/2 the said illicit liquor has been recovered from a Toto and its driver has been apprehended at the spot. Only on the basis of confessional statement of driver of the said Toto, the petitioner has been made accused in this case. Except the confessional statement, nothing has come against the petitioner. The petitioner has no concern with the said recovery. Lastly, it has been submitted that petitioner has no criminal antecedents.

5. On the other hand, learned A.P.P. for the State has opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest / surrender of the petitioner within a period of six weeks from today, in connection with Baisi P.S. Case No. 302 of 2025, he will 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 Exclusive Special Judge Excise, Court No. 01, Purnea subject to condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S., (Khatim Reza, J) premchand/- U T