Vishal Dixon v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.1353 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-221 Year-2025 Thana- DUMARIAGHAT District- East Champaran ====================================================== Vishal Dixon S/O Vinod Dixon R/O - Flat No.- 27, Block C- 8, Sector - 23B, Dwarka, South West- Delhi 110077 ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Vishal Prasad, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Nitya Nand Tiwary, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 21-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.
2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a) and 41(1) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 420 litres of liquor from a car. It is next submitted that 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 vehicle. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing an occurrence and thus, would
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.1353 of 2026(2) dt.21-01-2026 2/3 create evidence against himself and hence, would get implicated. It is also submitted that petitioner had rented his car to Zoom Car Service and the apprehended accused Rohit Kumar Singh and Vicky Singh had booked the car, who were also arrested from the spot, but then police in mechanical manner implicated the petitioner merely for the reason that petitioner is the owner of the seized vehicle.
4. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail application.
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, is directed to be released on provisional anticipatory bail on his furnishing bail-bond in the sum of Rs.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Exclusive Special Excise Court No.3, Civil Court, East Champaran, Motihari in connection with Dumariyaghat P.S. Case No.221 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
6. The application stands allowed.
7. It is made clear that the learned trial Court after
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.1353 of 2026(2) dt.21-01-2026 3/3 accepting the provisional bail bond of the petitioner 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 obtaining anticipatory bail had concealed his 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 is a person with clean antecedent, in that event, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Sanjay/- U