Deepak Mahto @ Deepak Kumar @ Deepak Kumar Mahto v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.2552 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-286 Year-2025 Thana- PANAPUR District- Saran ====================================================== Deepak Mahto @ Deepak Kumar @ Deepak Kumar Mahto S/O Wakeel Mahto Resident of village- Bhagwanpur, P.S.- Panapur, Dist.- Saran at Chapra ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Radha Mohan Singh For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Khurshid Anwar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 28-01-2026 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 2 litres of liquor from possession of Indradev Mahto and 13.200 litres of liquor from a place near a mill. 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 petitioner has no concern or relation with Indradev and he came to be implicated at the instance of local people, but then the name of the person,

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2552 of 2026(2) dt.28-01-2026 2/3 who disclosed the name of the petitioner is not disclosed in the FIR, which casts an aspersion on the case of the prosecution. 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 Panapur P.S. Case No. 286 of 2025, 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 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.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2552 of 2026(2) dt.28-01-2026 3/3 8.

At this stage, the learned counsel for the petitioner based on instruction submits that petitioner undertakes to deposit an amount of Rs. 1,500/- with Advocates' Association, Patna High Court.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T