IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.33695 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-227 Year-2018 Thana- GOPALPUR District- Patna ====================================================== Dipu Kumar @ Dipu Singh S/O Jagdish Singh R/O Village-Mittnachak,PS- Gopalpur, Distt-Patna ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Pranaya Shankar Sinha, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Md. Aslam Ansari, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY ORAL ORDER 2 20-05-2025 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Gopalpur P.S. Case No. 227 of 2018 for the offence registered under sections 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 lodged on 13.09.2018 by the informant, Rajesh Kumar. 3. As per the prosecution story lodged in the year 2018, the allegation is that on secret information, the police intercepted a truck and there is recovery of 881 liters of foreign liquor. Besides the truck, tempo and motorcycle were also there. One Chotu Kumar @ Abhijit Kumar was apprehended and he gave the name of the others. This led to the FIR. 4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner tried to impress Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.33695 of 2025(2) dt.20-05-2025 2/2 upon this Court about the innocence of the petitioner. 5. Learned APP for the State, on the other hand, took this Court to two facts; (i) the matter is of the year 2018 and there is huge of recovery of 881 liters foreign liquor. (ii) the petitioner has criminal antecedent of similar nature. 6. Considering the aforesaid two facts, it would be appropriate that the petitioner seeks regular bail. 7. The anticipatory bail application stands rejected. ajay/- (Rajiv Roy, J) U T