Patna High Court
CR. MISC./47234/2026 of Manish Kumar Pathak Vs The State of Bihar on 15 July 2026
COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.47234 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-231 Year-2024 Thana- DEWARIA District- Muzaffarpur ====================================================== Manish Kumar Pathak S/o Paras Nath Pathak R/O Village - Vishunpur Horil, P.S- Deoria,
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.47234 of 2026
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-231 Year-2024 Thana- DEWARIA District- Muzaffarpur ======================================================
Manish Kumar Pathak S/o Paras Nath Pathak R/O Village - Vishunpur Horil, P.S- Deoria, District - Muzaffarpur
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar Patna
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s
:
Mr.Santosh Kumar
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Ram Bilash Roy Raman
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
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ORAL ORDER
15-07-2026
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 Sections 274 and 275 of BNS and Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 22.5 litres of liquor from two different motorcycles.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the 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 one of the seized motorcycles. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing an occurrence and Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.47234 of 2026(2) dt.15-07-2026
thus would create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated, it is further submitted that petitioner was completely unaware that Vivek would misuse the vehicle in the manner as alleged, who was also apprehended from the spot along with Rajeev.
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 Deoria P.S. Case No. 231 of 2024, 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 even one case 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 anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner is a Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.47234 of 2026(2) dt.15-07-2026
person with clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.
Sumit/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T