Pappu Paswan @ Pappu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.81397 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-249 Year-2025 Thana- ALOULI District- Khagaria ====================================================== Pappu Paswan @ Pappu Kumar Son of Ramotar Paswan R/o Ward no. - 6, Rampur Alauli, P.S. - Aauli, Dist. - Khagaria. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Rakesh Mohan Singh For the Opposite Party/s :

Dr. Kumar Uday Pratap ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 21-01-2026

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the defects as pointed out by the office shall be removed during course of the day.

3. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Excise Act.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of four cases out of which three cases are under the Excise Act and allegation is of recovery of 10 litres of liquor from a place beside the kiosk of the petitioner.

5. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.81397 of 2025(2) dt.21-01-2026 2/3 recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place, which does not belong to the petitioner, but then, is adjacent to his kiosk and he came to be implicated based on secret information, which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is next submitted that police in majority of cases implicating innocent persons either at the behest of Chaukidar, local person, secret information and confessional statement in a mechanical manner without holding a proper investigation.

6. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail application.

7. 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, is directed to be released on provisional anticipatory bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty 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 Khagaria (Alauli) P. S. Case No.249 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.81397 of 2025(2) dt.21-01-2026 3/3

8. The application stands allowed.

9. It is made clear that the learned trial Court after accepting the provisional bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more than four cases, then it would be presumed that petitioner for the purposes of obtaining anticipatory bail had concealed his antecedent before this Court, in that event, the present provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but if on verification, it is found that petitioner has antecedent of four cases only, in that event, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T