Gopal Krishna @ Gopal Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.84699 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-284 Year-2025 Thana- BEGUSARAI MUFFASIL DistrictBegusarai ====================================================== Gopal Krishna @ Gopal Kumar Son of Amrendra Kumar Singh Resident of Village- Mohan Aghu, (Chhoti Eghu) Ward No. 45, P.S.- Begusarai Muffasil (Now Lakho), P.O. and District- Begusarai ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Saket Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Ram Priya Sharan Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 19-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to make correction in paragraph-3 of the bail application.

3. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

4. Perusal of the first information report and the seizure list, would go to show that 108.150 liters of foreign liquor is said to have been recovered from the different vehicles.

5. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no recovery from the physical and conscious possession of the petitioner. As a matter of fact, the name of the petitioner has transpired as he is the owner of one

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.84699 of 2025(2) dt.19-12-2025 2/2 of the vehicles. It is further submitted that the mandatory provisions of search and seizure have been violated as there is no independent witness to the seizure list.

6. Learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for bail on the ground that petitioner has two criminal antecedents, to which, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he is on bail in all the cases.

7. Taking into consideration the fact and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Begusarai Muffasil P.S. Case No. 284 of 2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438

(2) of the Cr.P.C./482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

(Soni Shrivastava, J) devendra/- U T