Ravindra Singh @ Ravindra Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.76906 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-123 Year-2025 Thana- Kaler District- Arwal ====================================================== Ravindra Singh @ Ravindra Kumar Son of Late Nazir Singh Resident of village - Ardali Bigha, P.S.- Kaler, District - Arwal. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Paras Nath, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Gauri Shankar Gupta, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 25-11-2025

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 Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2018.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 35 litres of liquor from the Dallan of the petitioner, 30 litres of liquor from the house of Bhola Chaudhary and 23 litres of liquor from the house of Sant Chaudhary.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and Dallan is a place outside the house and, thus, is accessible to villagers at large. It is further submitted that it appears that someone inimical to the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.76906 of 2025(2) dt.25-11-2025 2/3 petitioner concealed meager amount of liquor in his Dallan to implicate him. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own land for committing an occurrence and thus would create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated and the petitioner got implicated based on the secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone.

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, let 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.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 Kaler P.S. Case No. 123 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. It is made clear that thereafter the learned trial court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.76906 of 2025(2) dt.25-11-2025 3/3 before this Court at para 3 of the anticipatory bail application in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if it is found on verification that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T