Chandresh Chauhan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.91781 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-268 Year-2023 Thana- PHULWARIYA District- Gopalganj ====================================================== Chandresh Chauhan S/O Dinesh Chauhan R/O Village- Chargawa near I.T.I, P.S- Chargawan, Distt.- Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Priyanshu Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Parmanand Prasad ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 13-01-2026 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 offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 140.400 litres of liquor from a motorcycle and a car. 4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and he came to be implicated based on the fact that he is owner of the seized car. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing an occurrence and thus would create

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.91781 of 2025(2) dt.13-01-2026 2/3 evidence against himself and hence would get implicated, it is further submitted that petitioner was completely unaware that Prakash would misuse the vehicle in the manner as alleged, who was also apprehended from the spot along with two other accused persons.

5.

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

6.

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 trial court 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 Phulwariya P.S. Case No. 263 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS. 7.

It is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.91781 of 2025(2) dt.13-01-2026 3/3 confirmed, but after verification if 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) Sumit/- U T