Anant Kumar @ Munna Singh @ Chandan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.83018 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-171 Year-2020 Thana- NAWADA MUFFASIL District- Nawada ====================================================== Anant Kumar @ Munna Singh @ Chandan Kumar S/o Awadh Singh @ Avadh Singh Resident of Village- Surumbha, P.S.- Nawada Muffasil, DistrictNawada ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Hansraj, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Ramesh Chandra, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 22-01-2026

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 offences punishable under Sections 30(a) (d) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of ten cases under the excise act and allegation is of recovery of 82 liters of liquor from a brewery situated at four different places.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not even named in the FIR and during the course of investigation came to

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83018 of 2025(2) dt.22-01-2026 2/3 be implicated based on confessional statement of Kapil in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value. It is also submitted that once an accused is implicated in a case relating to excise, the police starts implicating mechanically either at the instance of Chowkidar, local person, confessional statement or secret information 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. 50,000/- (Rupees Fifty 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 Nawada Muffasil P.S. Case No. 171 of 2020 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 of more than ten cases then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83018 of 2025(2) dt.22-01-2026 3/3 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 ten cases only, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T