Patna High Court
CR. MISC./57753/2026 of Niraj Vs The State of Bihar on 19 August 2026
COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.57753 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-675 Year-2025 Thana- KATEYA District- Gopalganj ====================================================== Niraj S/o Bihari R/o Village - Bankata Bazar, P.S. - Chaura Kash, Dist. - Kushinagar. ... ...
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.57753 of 2026
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-675 Year-2025 Thana- KATEYA District- Gopalganj ======================================================
Niraj S/o Bihari R/o Village - Bankata Bazar, P.S. - Chaura Kash, Dist. - Kushinagar.
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s
:
Mr. Baijnath Sah
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Ramesh Chandra
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
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ORAL ORDER
19-08-2026
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 Sections 30(a), 41(1) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2016.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 17 litres of liquor from a scooty.
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 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.57753 of 2026(2) dt.19-08-2026
create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated. It is also submitted that the petitioner was completely unaware that his friend would misuse his vehicle in the manner as alleged, who also fled from the spot.
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 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 Kateya P.S. Case No.675/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
7. It is made clear that the learned trial court thereafter shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if on verification it is found that petitioner is a person with clean Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.57753 of 2026(2) dt.19-08-2026
antecedent, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
amit/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T