Pradeep Rai @ Pradip Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.70010 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-203 Year-2025 Thana- TARAIYA District- Saran ====================================================== Pradeep Rai @ Pradip Kumar S/o Birendra Ray R/o village- Bhualpur, P.S.- Marhowrah, District- Saran at Chapra.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar.

... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Dewendra Narayan Singh, Advocate.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Tarkeshwar Nath Thakur, APP.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 14-10-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

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

3. As per prosecution case, there is recovery of 108.480 litre illicit foreign liquor and a motorcycle bearing Registration No. BR-06AC-0527 from Laua Chhath Ghat. It is alleged that the petitioner alongwith other co-accused fled away from the spot after seeing the police.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. He further submits that the petitioner is not the owner of seized motorcycle and he has no concern with the alleged seized liquor. Learned counsel submits that no incriminating article has been recovered from the conscious possession of petitioner and

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.70010 of 2025(2) dt.14-10-2025 2/2 only on the basis of disclosure statement made by the local Chaukidar due to village politics, he has been made accused in this case. He further submits that the alleged recovery has been made from an open place which is accessible to public at large. Learned counsel 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, Saran at Chapra in connection with Taraiya P.S. Case No.203 of 2025, 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