Patna High Court
CR. MISC./50980/2026 of Shiv Shankar Yadav @ Shiv Shankar Kumar Vs The State of Bihar on 24 July 2026
COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.50980 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-128 Year-2025 Thana- Rasalpur District- Bhagalpur ====================================================== Shiv Shankar Yadav @ Shiv Shankar Kumar Son of Yogendra Yadav Resident of Village - Tintanga
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.50980 of 2026
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-128 Year-2025 Thana- Rasalpur District- Bhagalpur ======================================================
Shiv Shankar Yadav @ Shiv Shankar Kumar Son of Yogendra Yadav Resident of Village - Tintanga Karari, P.S.- Gopalpur, District - Bhagalpur
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s
:
Mr. Purushottam Kumar Das, Advocate
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Parmanand Prasad, APP
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
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ORAL ORDER
24-07-2026
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 Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of five cases under the Excise Act and allegation is of recovery of 180 liters of liquor from a car.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not apprehended 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.50980 of 2026(2) dt.24-07-2026
create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated, it is also submitted that petitioner was completely unaware that Saurav would misuse the vehicle in the manner as alleged who was also apprehended 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 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. 25000/- (Rupees Twenty 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 Rasalpur P.S. Case No. 128 of 2025 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 five 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 Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.50980 of 2026(2) dt.24-07-2026
anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of five cases only, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
Rishabh/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T