Ranjo Devi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.87294 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-145 Year-2025 Thana- TIKAPATTI District- Purnia ====================================================== RANJO DEVI W/o- Jago Mahto @ Yogendra Mahto R/v- Goriyar Purab W.No-10, Bargharia Tola Ps- Rupauli Dist- Purnea ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Nishant Kumar Sinha For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Md. Iftekhar Mahmood ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 24-12-2025 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 2 litres of liquor from the straw 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 the straw house is a place outside the house and thus is accessible to public at large. It is next submitted that it appears that someone inimical
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.87294 of 2025(2) dt.24-12-2025 2/3 to the petitioner planted meagre amount of liquor in order to implicate the petitioner and her family members. It is further submitted that no prudent person would use her own premises for committing an occurrence and thus would create evidence against herself and hence would get implicated and she came to be implicated based on secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone.
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 Tikkapatti P.S. Case No. 145 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
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.87294 of 2025(2) dt.24-12-2025 3/3 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 case in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T