Rohan Raj Bhagat @ Raushan Raj Bhagat v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.73666 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-146 Year-2025 Thana- Chitragupta Nagar District- Patna ====================================================== Rohan Raj Bhagat @ Raushan Raj Bhagat S/o Deepak Bhagat R/o- Mali Tola Mohiuddin Nagar, P.S.- Chowk, Dist.- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ram Jiban Pd. Singh, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms. Sangeeta Sharma, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 03-11-2025

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 offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 4.59 liters of liquor from a bag.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.73666 of 2025(2) dt.03-11-2025 2/3 was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated based on the fact that a mobile was recovered from the bag, but then mobile does not belong to the petitioner and police in a mechanical manner implicated him without holding a proper investigation based on secret information.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

6. 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 Trial Court 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 Chitragupta Nagar P.S. Case No. 146 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the BNSS.

7. It is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.73666 of 2025(2) dt.03-11-2025 3/3 antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T