Ravi Ranjan Kumar @ Ravi Ranjan @ Paplu v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.80272 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-750 Year-2025 Thana- NAGAR District- Vaishali ====================================================== Ravi Ranjan Kumar @ Ravi Ranjan @ Paplu Son of Arun Singh @ Arun Kumar Resident of Village - Adalpur Ward No. 6, PS - Hajipur Sadar, DistVaishali ... ... Petitioner/s

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sabal Kumar Jha, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Md. Nazir Ansari, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 09-12-2025

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 offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022 as well as Sections 25(1-b)a and 26 of the Arms Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 7.740 litres of liquor along with one country made pistol from Arun Sound Godown.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession. It is further submitted that petitioner came to be implicated based on the confessional

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.80272 of 2025(2) dt.09-12-2025 2/2 statement of apprehended accused in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value in the eye of law.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner and submits that it is not a case under the Excise Act but has been instituted under the Arms Act also and the name of the petitioner transpired in the confessional statement of apprehended accused and investigation of the case against the petitioner is in its nascent stages.

6. After hearing the learned A.P.P. for the State, the Court is not inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in connection with Hajipur Town P.S. Case No. 750 of 2025 pending in the Court of learned Exclusive Special Excise Court No. 1-cum-Additional District and Sessions Judge, Vaishali at Hajipur/Successor Court.

7. Hence, the prayer for anticipatory bail is rejected. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T