Sudhir Singh @ Sudhir Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.69873 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-466 Year-2025 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Nawada ====================================================== Sudhir Singh @ Sudhir Kumar son of Late Vijay Singh Resident of VillageSakarpura, P.S.- Nemdarganj, District- Nawada. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Jagdhar Prasad, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 13-10-2025 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 the prosecution case, 48 litres of illicit beer and 23.405 of foreign liquor were recovered from the house of the petitioner. Puja Devi, who is a wife of the petitioner disclosed that petitioner fled away from the spot.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence. Further submission is that the house in question, from where the alleged recovery has been made, is a joint family house of petitioner's father-in-law. Petitioner was not residing at the house of his father-in-law. As a matter of fact, due to some dispute of the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.69873 of 2025(2) dt.13-10-2025 2/2 petitioner with his wife, namely, Puja Devi, his wife with malafide has falsely implicated the petitioner in the present case. Petitioner was not present on the spot and he has no concern with the seized illicit liquor. Nothing has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner. There is no independent witness on the seizure list. Petitioner has no criminal 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 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 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 Court concerned in connection with Nawada Excise P.S. Case No. 466 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S., 2023.

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