Rajanti Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.72134 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-182 Year-2017 Thana- ISUAPUR District- Saran ====================================================== Rajanti Devi W/O Late Pualinut R/O village- Bhagwanpur, P.S. -Isuapur, District- Saran ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Hemant Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Indu Kumari Srivastava ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 16-10-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. This application for grant of anticipatory bail arises out of Isuapur Police Station Case No. 182 of 2017, dated 23.09.2017, disclosing offence punishable under Section 30/30 (a)/38/41 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

3. The prosecution case, as per the First Information Report, is that the police, on secret information that the petitioner, along with other, is indulged in the manufacturing and selling of illicit country-made mahua liquor from their houses, reached the place of occurrence and on seeing the police, the persons present in the said houses fled away. On search, the police recovered 15 litres of illicit country-

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.72134 of 2025(2) dt.16-10-2025 2/3 made mahua liquor from the cattle shed (palani).

4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case on secret information. He further submits that the petitioner has got no concern with the illicit liquor recovered inasmuch as the illicit liquor has been recovered from the cattle shed (palani) of the petitioner, which is an open space and is accessible to all and sundry.

5. Regards being had to the submission advanced on behalf of the parties concerned and taking into consideration the fact that the name of the petitioner transpired in this case on secret information and the illicit liquor has been recovered from cattle shed (palani), which is an open space, I am inclined to grant the petitioner privilege of anticipatory bail.

6. This application is, accordingly, allowed.

7. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within four weeks, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Exclusive Special Excise Court No. III, Saran, at Chapra, in connection with

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.72134 of 2025(2) dt.16-10-2025 3/3 Isuapur Police Station Case No. 182 of 2017, subject to the condition laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

(Anil Kumar Sinha, J.) Prabhakar Anand/- U √ T √