Pradip Kumar @ Pradip Kumar Sah v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.72927 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-146 Year-2025 Thana- Singhaul District- Begusarai ====================================================== Pradip Kumar @ Pradip Kumar Sah aged about 25 years ,male, S/O Pramod Sah R/O Village- Sushil Nagar, Ward No. 07, P.S-Singhaul, DistrictBegusarai. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Krishna Prabhat, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Md. Anzarul Haque Sahara, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 16-10-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Singhaul PS. Case No. 146 of 2025 dated 29-08-2025, instituted under Section30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.

3. The allegation is of the recovery of 10.98 litres of foreign liquor from the house of co-accused Deepak Kumar.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is further submitted that nothing has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner. It is next submitted that the said illicit liquor has been recovered

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.72927 of 2025(2) dt.16-10-2025 2/2 from the house of Deepak Kumar, who happens to be the brother of the petitioner, and only on that basis the petitioner has been made an accused in this case. Lastly, it is submitted that the petitioner has no criminal antecedents.

5. Learned APP has opposed the prayer for bail.

6. Having considered 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 bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Excise Judge 1 Begusarai, in Singhaul PS. Case No. 146 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Khatim Reza, J) shyambihari/- U