Suman Kumar @ Chandi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.75194 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-147 Year-2025 Thana- Ramgarh Chowk District- Lakhisarai ====================================================== Suman Kumar @ Chandi Son of Mithlesh Kumar @ Bhim Singh R/o Village -Matasi PS - Halsi Distt - Lakhisarai ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Ms. Khushi Awadh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, A.P.P.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 12-11-2025
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 Sections 30(a) and 34 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2018.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.
4. Allegation is of recovery of 19.125 litres of liquor from an auto and a motorcycle.
5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession. It is further submitted that petitioner is not the owner of any of the seized vehicles and he came to be implicated based on the confessional statement of Deepak Kumar in police custody which does not have any
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.75194 of 2025(2) dt.12-11-2025 2/3 evidentiary value in the eye of law when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.
6. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
7. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, let 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 Ramgarh Chowk P.S. Case No. 147 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.
8. It is made clear that thereafter the learned trial court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this Court at para 3 of the anticipatory bail application in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if it is found on verification that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent in that event the provisional
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.75194 of 2025(2) dt.12-11-2025 3/3 anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Sanjay/- U T