Raji Devi @ Rajiya Devi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.78243 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-32 Year-2025 Thana- SANGRAMPUR District- East Champaran ====================================================== Raji Devi @ Rajiya Devi W/O Rajesh Majhi Resident of Village-Manglapur Mushari Tola, Police Station-Sangrampur, District-East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Md. Waliur Rahman For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Akshay Lal Pandit ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 02-12-2025
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman and allegation is of recovery of 5 litres of liquor from a place near the door of the petitioner and 2 litres of liquor from a place under Machan of Ramchandra Manjhi. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from her conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place adjacent to her house and as such she
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.78243 of 2025(2) dt.02-12-2025 2/3 came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with whom her husband is on an inimical term.
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 Sangrampur P.S. Case No.32/2025, 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 her 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 antecedent, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.78243 of 2025(2) dt.02-12-2025 3/3 shall be confirmed forthwith.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T