Sikandar Ram v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.80849 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-121 Year-2025 Thana- GHOSWARI District- Patna ====================================================== Sikandar Ram Son of Late Indradev Ram R/o Village- Dhanakdobh, P.S.- Ghoshwari and District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Nilendu Kumar Choudhary, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Md. Iftekhar Mahmood, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 11-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.
2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2016/2022.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedents of three cases and allegation is of recovery of 55 litres of liquor from a place near a pond. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.80849 of 2025(2) dt.11-12-2025 2/3
4. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail application.
5. 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.15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Judge Excise, Barh (Patna) in connection with Ghoshwari (Ghoswari) P.S. Case No.121 of 2021, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
6. The application stands allowed.
7. 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 antecedents of more than three 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 antecedents of only three cases, in that event,
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.80849 of 2025(2) dt.11-12-2025 3/3 the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Sanjay/- U T