Patna High Court
CR. MISC./56501/2026 of Munna Kumar @ Munna Paswan @ Munna Ram Vs The State of Bihar on 13 August 2026
COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.56501 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-232 Year-2024 Thana- BARHARA District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Munna Kumar @ Munna Paswan @ Munna Ram Son of Bhageran Paswan @ Bhageran Ram Resident of Village-
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.56501 of 2026
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-232 Year-2024 Thana- BARHARA District- Bhojpur ======================================================
Munna Kumar @ Munna Paswan @ Munna Ram Son of Bhageran Paswan @
Bhageran Ram Resident of Village- Ekauna, P.S. -Barhara, District -Bhojpur at Ara
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s
:
Mr. Ajay Kumar Singh
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Vinod Shanker Modi
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
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ORAL ORDER
13-08-2026
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 Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of one case under the Excise Act and allegation is of recovery of 48.5 litres of liquor from a field near road side.
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 alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.56501 of 2026(2) dt.13-08-2026
and is accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is also submitted that if chowkidar was aware of the involvement of the petitioner in the occurrence then why he did not inform the police prior to institution of the instant 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 within a period of six weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.5000/- (Rupees five 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 Barahara P.S. Case No.232/2024, 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 more than one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this court, as such, the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.56501 of 2026(2) dt.13-08-2026
provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if on verification it is found that petitioner has antecedent of one case, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
amit/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T