Arvind Singh @ Arvind Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.91433 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-557 Year-2025 Thana- CHAPRA MUFFASIL District- Saran ====================================================== 1.
Arvind Singh @ Arvind Kumar Singh S/O Sachida Singh Resident of Village- Barka Baiju Tola, P.S- Rivilganj, District- Saran At Chapra 2.
Dhuran Singh @ Dhurandhar Prasad Singh S/O Late Ramji Singh Resident of Village- Barka Baiju Tola, P.S- Rivilganj, District- Saran At Chapra ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Dewendra Narayan Singh For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Ramesh Chandra ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 13-01-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioners seek bail in anticipation of their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 111 of the B.N.S. and Section 30(a) of the Excise Act.
3. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioner no.1 has antecedent of eleven cases under the Excise Act and petitioner no.2 has antecedent of ten cases under the Excise Act and the allegation is of recovery of 233.280 litres of liquor from a car.
4. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners were not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.91433 of 2025(2) dt.13-01-2026 2/3 recovered from their conscious possession and are not the owner of the seized car and they came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Pratik in police custody, which does not have any evidentiary value. It is next submitted that police in majority of cases implicating innocent persons either at the behest of Chaukidar, local person, secret information and confessional statement in a mechanical manner without holding proper investigation. It is next submitted that petitioners in similar manner were implicated in the aforesaid cases which became their criminal antecedent.
5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail application.
6. 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, is directed to be released on provisional anticipatory bail on their furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs.55,000/- (Rupees Fifty Five Thousand) each 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 Chapra Mufassil P. S. Case No.557 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.91433 of 2025(2) dt.13-01-2026 3/3 B.N.S.S.
7. The application stands allowed.
8. It is made clear that the learned trial Court after accepting the provisional bail bonds of the petitioners shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioners and in the event, if it is found that petitioner no.1 has antecedent of more than eleven cases and petitioner no.2 has antecedent of more than ten cases, then it would be presumed that petitioners for the purposes of obtaining anticipatory bail had concealed their antecedent before this Court, in that event, the present provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but if on verification, it is found that petitioner no.1 has antecedent of eleven cases only and petitioner no.2 has antecedent of ten cases only, in that event, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T