Karam Veer Choudhary @ Karam Chaudhary v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.78641 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-213 Year-2024 Thana- JHANJHARPUR District- Madhubani ====================================================== Karam Veer Choudhary @ Karam Chaudhary Son of Late Raghubir Chaudhary @ Raghuveer Chaudhari Resident of Village - Puwari Tola, Ward No.- 03, P.S.- Jhanjharpur, District - Madhubani. ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Jaishankar Kumar Yadav For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Bishweshwar Ram ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 04-12-2025
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 offence punishable under Sections 274, 275, 3(5) BNS and Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 342 litres of liquor from a mango orchard. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large and he came to be
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.78641 of 2025(2) dt.04-12-2025 2/3 implicated at the instance of local person and chowkidar but then it is submitted that if the local person and chowkidar were aware of the involvement of the petitioner in the occurrence then why they did not inform the police prior to institution of the instant FIR, which casts an aspersion on the case of the prosecution.
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 Jhanjharpur P.S. Case No.213/2024, 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
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.78641 of 2025(2) dt.04-12-2025 3/3 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 antecedent, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T