Bittu Singh @ Bittu Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.88278 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-166 Year-2025 Thana- KALUAHI District- Madhubani ====================================================== Bittu Singh @ Bittu Kumar Singh S/o- Fekan Singh R/o - Narar Navtoliya, P.S - Kaluahi, District - Madhubani ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Sanjay Kumar Jha, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Shyam Bihari Singh, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 22-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Kaluahi PS. Case No. 166 of 2025 dated 13-09-2025, instituted under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. The allegation is of recovery of 24.06 litres of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and 63 litres of Nepali country-made liquor from the sack loaded on a Glamour motorcycle, the registration number, chassis number, and engine number of which were not legible.

4.Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is further submitted that no incriminating article has been recovered from the conscious possession of the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.88278 of 2025(2) dt.22-12-2025 2/2 petitioner or from his house; rather, the alleged liquor was recovered from the sack loaded on the motorcycle. The petitioner has been implicated merely on the basis of suspicion and disclosure made by local people of the vicinity. It is further submitted that neither the seized Glamour motorcycle nor the seized illicit liquor belongs to the petitioner. Lastly, it is submitted that the petitioner has no criminal antecedents.

5. Learned APP has opposed the prayer for bail.

6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Judge Excise, Madhubani, in Kaluahi PS. Case No. 166 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023. (Khatim Reza, J) shyambihari/- U