Sonu Kumar Yadav @ Sonu Kumar Gop v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.83080 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-546 Year-2025 Thana- BYPASS District- Patna ====================================================== 1.
Sonu Kumar Yadav @ Sonu Kumar Gop S/O Jhulan Yadav @ Ghultun Gop R/O - Bihari Begampur,Sidhe Bazar, P.S- Bypass,Distt.- Patna 2.
Raju Bind @Lulha S/O Indradev Bind R/O - Bihari Begampur,Sidhe Bazar, P.S- Bypass,Distt.- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Nityanand Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Md. Aslam Ansari, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 31-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.
2. Petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 60 litres of liquor from possession of four coaccused persons, as detailed in the FIR. It is next submitted that petitioners were not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from other accused persons and petitioners came to
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83080 of 2025(3) dt.31-01-2026 2/3 be implicated based on confessional statement of apprehended accused in police custody, which does not have any evidentiary value.
4. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail application.
5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners, above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, are directed to be released on provisional anticipatory bail on their furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Exclusive Special Court of Excise, Patna City, Patna in connection with Bypass P.S. Case No.546 of 2025, 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 bond of the petitioners shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioners and in the event, if it is found that petitioners have antecedent of even one case, then it would be presumed that petitioners for the purposes of obtaining anticipatory bail had concealed their antecedent before this
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83080 of 2025(3) dt.31-01-2026 3/3 Court, in that event, the present provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but if on verification, it is found that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent, in that event, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
8. At this stage, learned counsel for the petitioners, based on instruction, submits that petitioners undertake to deposit an amount of Rs.2500/- each with Lawyers' Association, Patna High Court within a period of two weeks from today. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Sanjay/- U T