Patna High CourtCR. MISC./78517/2025disposed

Dhananjay Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2026-02-23Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma3 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.78517 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-277 Year-2025 Thana- FATUA District- Patna ====================================================== Dhananjay Kumar S/O Chotan Singh @ Chhotan Prasad R/o Vill. - Kolhar, P.S.- Fatuha, Dist.- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Abhishek Rai For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Md. Nazir Ansari ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 23-02-2026

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 offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 23.920 litres of liquor from a fast food shop. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of the shop and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Sharad in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value. It is also submitted that Sharad is own uncle of the petitioner and they are having

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.78517 of 2025(3) dt.23-02-2026 2/3 dispute relating to property, as such it appears that he falsely implicated the petitioner, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.

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

5. 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 Court below 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 Fatuha P.S. Case No.277/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

6. It is made clear that the learned trial court thereafter shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if on verification it is found that petitioner is a person with clean

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.78517 of 2025(3) dt.23-02-2026 3/3 antecedent, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T