Bundal Chaudhary @ Bhundal Choudhari @ Dharmendra Chaudhary @ Dharmendra Choudhari v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.72809 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-334 Year-2024 Thana- MAGADH MEDICAL COLLEGE District- Gaya ====================================================== Bundal Chaudhary @ Bhundal Choudhari @ Dharmendra Chaudhary @ Dharmendra Choudhari S/o- Late Nand Lal Chaudhary Village- Bhukhan Bigha PS-Magadh Medical Distt-Gaya ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shashank Shekhar, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Asha Devi, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 16-10-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Magadh Medical P.S. Case No. 334 of 2024 dated 12.12.2024, registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. The allegation is of recovery of 15 litres country made liquor from an old house of the petitioner.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in this case. It is submitted that nothing has been recovered either from conscious possession of the petitioner or from his residential house. It is further submitted that the illicit liquor has been

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.72809 of 2025(2) dt.16-10-2025 2/2 recovered from an old house which is joint family property of the petitioner, where nobody is residing. Lastly, it has been submitted that he has one criminal case against him.

5. Learned A.P.P. has opposed the prayer for bail of the petitioner.

6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest / surrender of the petitioner within a period of six weeks from today, in connection with Magadh Medical P.S. Case No. 334 of 2024, he shall be released on anticipatory 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 Court No. -IV, Gaya, subject to condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of B.N.S.S.. (Khatim Reza, J) prabhat/- U T