Sunil Kumar @ Sunil Paswan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.90282 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-986 Year-2025 Thana- KANKARBAG District- Patna ====================================================== Sunil Kumar @ Sunil Paswan S/o- Ram Briksh Paswan Resident of villageDusadhi Pakri Kankarbagh Sampatchak, Lohia Nagar, PS- Kankarbagh DistPatna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shaishav Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Bishweshwar Ram ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 08-01-2026

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 191(2), 190, 115 (2) and 132 BNS & Sections 30(a) and 45 of Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 3.8 litres of liquor from a scooter and 18.4 litres of liquor and Rs.3,24,450/- from house of Sujit Kumar. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and is not the owner of the seized scooter nor the recovery is from the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.90282 of 2025(2) dt.08-01-2026 2/3 house of the petitioner. It is also submitted that petitioner has no concern or relation with Sujit and he came to be implicated based on the confessional statement of Anuradha in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value.

4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.500/- (Rupees five hundred) 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 Kankarbagh P.S. Case No.986/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

6. It is made clear that the learned trial court thereafter shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.90282 of 2025(2) dt.08-01-2026 3/3 on verification it is found that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T