Umesh Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.72363 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-541 Year-2024 Thana- TURKAULIYA District- East Champaran ====================================================== Umesh Manjhi Son of Late Badari Manjhi Resident of Village-Chargaha, Mushari Tola, P.S-Turkauliya ,District-East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s
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The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Vijay Shankar Shrivastava For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Surendra Prasad Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 20-11-2025
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 offence punishable under Sections 30(a), 41(1) and 37 of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the case was taken up on 16.10.2025 when the antecedent report of the petitioner was called for. It is next submitted that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 60 litres of liquor along with 500 litres of Mahua pass from a motorcycle. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of the seized vehicle and he
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.72363 of 2025(3) dt.20-11-2025 2/3 came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Ravindra in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value.
4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
5. 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 Court below 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 Turkauliya P.S. Case No.541/2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
6. It is made clear that the learned trial court thereafter shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if on verification it is found that petitioner is a person with clean
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.72363 of 2025(3) dt.20-11-2025 3/3 antecedent, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T