CR. MISC./58894/2026 of Jalandhar Kumar Singh @ Jalandhar Singh 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 offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2018.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 66 litres of liquor from a mango and a banana orchard in front of the dallan of Ranjeet Singh.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to villagers at large and he has no concern or relation with Ranjeet Singh. It is further submitted that Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.58894 of 2026(2) dt.21-08-2026

petitioner came to be implicated based on the secret information which is the easiest way to implicate someone without holding a proper investigation of the case, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.

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 appearing on behalf of the petitioner, let the petitioner, above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender 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 Desari (Distt. Vaishali) P.S. Case No. 387 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C./482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

7. However, it is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this Court, at para 3 of the anticipatory bail Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.58894 of 2026(2) dt.21-08-2026

application, in that event, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but, if it is found on verification that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent, in that event, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

Kundan/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T