Nandlal Rai v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.84281 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-1104 Year-2025 Thana- AHIYAPUR District- Muzaffarpur ====================================================== Nandlal Rai S/o Raghunath Rai Resident of Village - Patiyasha, P.S - Ahiyapur (Garha O.P), District - Muzaffarpur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Ms.Nitu Kumari For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms.Veena Kumari Jaiswal ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 17-01-2026 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 Sections 30(a), 41, and 32(2) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of 11 cases out of which 9 cases are under the Excise Act and allegation is of recovery of 3546 litres of litres from different vehicles.

4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of any of the seized vehicles and he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of apprehended-accused in police

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.84281 of 2025(2) dt.17-01-2026 2/3 custody which does not have any evidentiary value. It is further submitted that once an accused is implicated in a case relating to excise, the police starts implicating mechanically either at the instance of Chowkidar, local person, confessional statement or secret information without holding a proper investigation. 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 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. 55,000/- (Rupees Fifty-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 Ahiyapur P.S. Case No. 1104 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 11 cases then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.84281 of 2025(2) dt.17-01-2026 3/3 confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of 11 cases in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T