Bhairu Manjhi @ Bhairo Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.68303 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-463 Year-2025 Thana- FATEHPUR District- Gaya ====================================================== 1.

Bhairu Manjhi @ Bhairo Manjhi S/o Late Sahar Manjhi @ Sohar Manjhi R/o village- Raghopur, P.S- Fatehpur, District- Gaya 2.

Sarju Manjhi @ Jugal Manjhi S/o Late Sahar Manjhi @ Sohar Manjhi R/o village- Raghopur, P.S- Fatehpur, District- Gaya ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Shantanu Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 13-10-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. Petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case instituted under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. There is recovery of 200 litres country made liquor from the door of house of the petitioners.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in this case due to local dirty politics. Nothing has been recovered from conscious possession of the petitioners. The recovery has been made from open place near the house of petitioners and due to enmity with chaukidar, petitioners have been implicated in this

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.68303 of 2025(2) dt.13-10-2025 2/2 case. Petitioners have no concern with the seized liquor. There is no independent witness of the seizure list. The petitioners have no criminal antecedent and they undertake to cooperate in the investigation and trial.

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

6. Considering 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 petitioners be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court concerned, Gaya in connection with Fatehpur P.S. Case No.463 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down in Section 482

(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) Harish/- U T