Rita Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.85580 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-204 Year-2025 Thana- PARANDABAR District- Nawada ====================================================== Rita Devi, W/o Upendra Prasad, R/O Vill. - Belahi Tand, P.S.- Parnadabar, Dist. - Nawada ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Birendra Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Kumud Kishore, adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Binod Kumar No.3, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHAILENDRA SINGH ORAL ORDER 18-12-2025

1. Heard Mr. Birendra Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Binod Kumar No.3, learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in connection with Parnadabar P.S. Case No. 204 of 2025 dated 08.08.2025 registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. The main submissions advanced by the petitioner's counsel are that the petitioner, who is a lady, has been made an accused mainly on account of she being registered owner of the alleged motorcycle which was allegedly used in transporting the alleged recovered liquor but in fact petitioner's one relative namely, Nitish Kumar had taken the petitioner's motorcycle on the pretext of some necessary marketing work but later the same was misused in smuggling of the illicit liquor in which the petitioner

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.85580 of 2025(2) dt.18-12-2025 2/2 had neither any role nor any knowledge and she bears no criminal antecedent.

4. Though, learned APP appearing for the State has opposed the bail prayer of the petitioner but fairly accepts that the petitioner has been made accused mainly on account of she being registered owner of the alleged motorcycle and also accepted that it is not the case of prosecution that at the time of recovery of the alleged liquor any female was riding the said motorcycle.

5. In the facts and circumstances of the case and considering the above stated facts and mainly petitioner's fair and clean antecedent, this court is inclined to grant the relief of anticipatory bail to her. Accordingly, let the petitioner namedabove, in the event of her arrest/surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Parnadabar P.S. Case No. 204 of 2025 on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 20,000/-(Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Court concerned, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S., 2023. (Shailendra Singh, J) Rajiv/- U T