Subodh Rai @ Subodh Ray @ Subodh Kumar Ray v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.73833 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-161 Year-2025 Thana- SARAI RANJAN District- Samastipur ====================================================== Subodh Rai @ subodh Ray @ Subodh Kumar Ray Son of Yogendra Ray @ Jogindr Ray Resident Of Bizitpur Meyari, Bazidpur Meari, Bajitpur Meari, Bajitpur Meyari, Vajitpur Meyari, P.s.- Sarairanjan, District- Samastipur, Bihar ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Keshav Bhardwaj For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Mukesh Kumar Singh ====================================================== 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 the petitioner has antecedent of three cases and allegation is of recovery of 327.165 litres of liquor from a pick-up vehicle. 4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of the seized vehicle. It is next submitted that he came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar with whom he is on an

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.73833 of 2025(2) dt.03-11-2025 2/3 inimical term. It is further submitted that once an accused is implicated in a case relating to excise, the police starts implicating mechanically without holding a proper investigation. 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. 15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand) 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 Sarairanjan P.S. Case No. 161 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 more than three cases then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of three cases in that event the provisional anticipatory

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.73833 of 2025(2) dt.03-11-2025 3/3 bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T