Ranjeet Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.75876 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-589 Year-2025 Thana- JAHANABAD District- Jehanabad ====================================================== 1.

Ranjeet Kumar S/O Dukhharan Saw R/O Village- Naya Tola, P.SJehanabad, Distt.- Jehanabad (Bihar). 2.

Raja Kumar @ Raja Kumar Abhinandan S/O Dukhharan Saw R/O VillageNaya Tola, P.S- Jehanabad, Distt.- Jehanabad (Bihar). ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Uday Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Anuj Kumar Shrivastava ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 17-11-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner no.1 has antecedent of two cases and petitioner no.2 has antecedent of one case and allegation is of recovery of 6.135 litres of liquor from a Scooty along with Rs.1,02,900/-. It is next submitted that petitioners were not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and are not the owners of the seized scooty and they came to be

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.75876 of 2025(2) dt.17-11-2025 2/3 implicated based on the confessional statement of apprehended accused which does not have any evidentiary value.

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

5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their 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.10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) each 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 Jehanabad P.S. Case No.589/2025, 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 petitioners and in the event if it is found that petitioner no.1 has antecedent of more than two cases and petitioner no.2 has antecedent of more than one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioners had concealed their antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if on verification it is found that petitioner no.1 has antecedent of

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.75876 of 2025(2) dt.17-11-2025 3/3 two cases and petitioner no.2 has antecedent of one case, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T