Ravi Shankar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.67070 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-410 Year-2021 Thana- DANAPUR District- Patna ====================================================== Ravi Shankar S/O Sri Gurudutt Singh R/o Village- Gosai Tola, A/ P MohallaSultanpur, P.S.- Danapur, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sarvan Kumar, Advocate.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Shyam Kumar Singh, APP.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 07-10-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehend arrest in a case registered under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. As per prosecution case, there is recovery of 33.99 litre illicit foreign liquor from two motorcycles parked in the cow-shed of co-accused Ajeet Kumar. Petitioner is owner of one of the motorcycle in question.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case being the registered owner of one of the motorcycle in question. He further submits that no incriminating article has been recovered from the conscious possession of petitioner. Learned counsel submits that except the fact that petitioner is owner of one of the seized motorcycle, there is no material against him. He further submits that the alleged recovery has

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.67070 of 2025(2) dt.07-10-2025 2/2 been made from an open place which is accessible to public at large. Learned counsel submits that similarly situated coaccused had already been granted anticipatory bail by the Coordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 14.03.2024 passed in Cr. Misc. No.16941 of 2024. He further submits that petitioner has got clean antecedent and he undertakes to cooperate in the investigation and trial.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail.

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest or surrender before the concerned Court within six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court concerned in connection with Danapur P.S. Case No.410 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

(Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) Ritik/- U T