Patna High Court
CR. MISC./49419/2026 of RAJESH MARANDI Vs THE STATE OF BIHAR on 21 July 2026
COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.49419 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-62 Year-2026 Thana- DANDKHORA District- Katihar ====================================================== 1. Rajesh Marandi S/O Dinesh Marandi R/O Village- Makhana, P.S.- Dandkhora, District- Katihar 2.
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.49419 of 2026
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-62 Year-2026 Thana- DANDKHORA District- Katihar ======================================================
1.
Rajesh Marandi S/O Dinesh Marandi R/O Village- Makhana, P.S.- Dandkhora, District- Katihar
2.
Jaspal Marandi S/O Late Ganesh Marandi R/O Village- Makhana, P.S.- Dandkhora, District- Katihar
... ... Petitioner/S
Versus
The State Of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s
:
Mr.Chandra Shekhar Anand
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Nand Kumar
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
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ORAL ORDER
21-07-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioners seek bail in anticipation of their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Excise Act.
3. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and the allegation is of recovery of 19 litres of liquor from two places near Maa Kali temple.
4. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners were not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and even alleged Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.49419 of 2026(2) dt.21-07-2026
recovery is from a place, which does not belong to the petitioners and is accessible to public at large and they came to be implicated at the instance of Chaukidar with whom they are on an inimical term.
5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail application.
6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners, above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on provisional anticipatory bail on their furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) each 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 Dandkhora P. S. Case No.62 of 2026, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.
7. The application stands allowed.
8. It is made clear that the learned trial Court after accepting the provisional bail bonds of the petitioners shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioners and in the event, if it is found that petitioners have antecedent of even one case, then it would be presumed that petitioners for the purposes of Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.49419 of 2026(2) dt.21-07-2026
obtaining anticipatory bail had concealed their antecedent before this Court, in that event, the present provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but if on verification, it is found that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent, in that event, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
vikash/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T