CR. MISC./58376/2026 of Navin Kumar Singh @ Navin Kumar Vs The State of Bihar on 21 August 2026

ORAL ORDER

21-08-2026

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 Sections 272, 273 and 34 of the IPC and Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of eight cases out of which two cases are under the Excise Act and petitioner stands acquitted in three cases and allegation is of recovery of 1239.12 litres of liquor from three different vehicles.

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 is not the owner of any of the seized vehicles and he came to be implicated based Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.58376 of 2026(2) dt.21-08-2026

on confessional statement of Pintu in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value.

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. 40,000/- (Rupees Forty Thousand) 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 Musarigharari P.S. Case No. 19 of 2019, 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 more than eight cases 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 has antecedent of eight Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.58376 of 2026(2) dt.21-08-2026

case in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

Sumit/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T