Dhruv Pati Kunwar @ Dhupati Kunwar @ Dhrup Pati Kunwar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.80766 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-205 Year-2025 Thana- JANTA BAZAR District- Saran ====================================================== Dhruv Pati Kunwar @ Dhupati Kunwar @ Dhrup Pati Kunwar Wife of Late Sitaram Chaudhary Resident of Village - Sobhipur, P.S. - Janta Bajar, District - Saran.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Mirtunjay Kumar Tiwary For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Shailendra Kumar Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 11-12-2025 1.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2.

The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of one case and is a woman and allegation is of recovery of 25 litres of liquor from a place behind the house of the petitioner.

4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from her conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a place which is adjacent to the house of the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.80766 of 2025(2) dt.11-12-2025 2/3 petitioner and she came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar with whom her husband is on an inimical term. 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 her 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. 5,000/- (Rupees Five 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 Janta Bazar P.S. Case No. 205 of 2025, 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 one case then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed her 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 one

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.80766 of 2025(2) dt.11-12-2025 3/3 case in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T