Pappu Thakur @ Pappu Sharma v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.67401 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-124 Year-2025 Thana- BYPASS District- Patna ====================================================== Pappu Thakur @ Pappu Sharma S/o- Rajendra Thakur Resident of villageBahari Dhawalpura Bandh Par PS- Bypass Dist- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shashank Chandra, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Jagdhar Prasad, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 09-12-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 292, 352 and 3(5) of the BNS, 2023 read with Section 52 of the Bihar Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that 16.03.2025 at about 12.50 hours, he received two videos and a photograph on whatsapp showing four people are seen in a drunken condition and abusing and on inquiry, the name of the petitioner transpired.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that no doubt a video went viral but then the persons in the video were acting and the police without verifying the facts instituted the instant FIR.

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

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.67401 of 2025(3) dt.09-12-2025 2/2 anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, 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 Provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Trial Court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Bypass P.S. Case No. 124 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the BNSS.

7. It is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T