Sunetri Das v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.72950 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-552 Year-2024 Thana- Excise P.S. District- Kishanganj ====================================================== Sunetri Das, aged about 31 years, female, W/o Manoj Sarkar, D/o Late Sukhendu Kumar Das R/o Village- Majrul Sarani, English Bazar, P.S.- English Bazar, District- Malda (West Bengal) ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Radha Mohan Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mrs.Indu Kumari Srivastava, 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 Madya Nisedh PS. Case No. 552 of 2024 dated 29-04-2024, instituted under Sections 30(a) and 32(3) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3.The allegation is of the recovery of 3 litres of foreign liquor from a Maruti Suzuki WagonR car bearing Registration No. WB-66M-4468, which belongs to the petitioner..

4.Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and she is a respectable lady who has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is further submitted that the said car was being driven by the husband of

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.72950 of 2025(2) dt.16-10-2025 2/2 the petitioner, along with three other accused persons, all of whom were apprehended at the spot. It is next submitted that there has been no recovery from the conscious possession of the petitioner; rather, the said recovery was made from a WagonR car, which was being driven by the husband of the petitioner and belongs to the petitioner. 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 Judge, Excise Court No.II, Kishanganj, in Madya Nisedh PS. Case No. 552 of 2024, Spl Case No. 565 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