Vinod Kumar @ Binod Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.79941 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-327 Year-2025 Thana- Daudnagar Excise District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Vinod Kumar @ Binod Kumar S/O Bachchan Singh @ Sri Bachchan Singh R/O Village- Daulatpur, P.S- Daudnagar, Distt.- Aurangabad. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mrs. Mukul Kumari For the Opposite Party/s :

Mrs. Asha Kumari ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AJIT KUMAR ORAL ORDER 03-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Daudnagar Excise P.S. Case No.327 of 2025 dated 23.09.2025, registered for the offences under Sections 30(a), 30(c), 32(3) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. As per the FIR, the police raided a cowshed where illicit liquor was allegedly being manufactured. One person fled on seeing the police and was identified by local people as Vinod Kumar. From the cowshed, 30 litres of Jawa Mahua, 30 litres of country-made liquor, and related utensils were recovered.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is quite innocent and has been falsely implicated in the instant case merely on the basis of secret information. There is no recovery from the constructive possession or from the house of the petitioner. She further submits that, though the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.79941 of 2025(2) dt.03-12-2025 2/2 cowshed belongs to the petitioner, he had no knowledge that illicit liquor was being manufactured there, since it is situated in an open place. Lastly, it is submitted that the petitioner has no criminal antecedents.

5. Learned APP for the State opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail.

6. Regard being had to the submission made by the parties, taking into consideration the fact that illicit liquor has not been recovered from the premises of the petitioner, accordingly, this Court is inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

7. Let the petitioner, above named, be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of four weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Special Judge of Excise-II, Aurangabad, in connection with Daudnagar P.S. Case No.327 of 2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS, 2023. (Ajit Kumar, J) shikha/- U T