IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.36218 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-384 Year-2024 Thana- Excise Arwal District- Jehanabad ====================================================== Ranjeet Kumar S/o Baldev Paswan R/o Village- Aslampur Sakari Chauki, P.S. and District- Arwal ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Birendra Kumar For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Sanjay Kumar Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 2 18-06-2025 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. This application for grant of anticipatory bail arises out of Arwal Excise Police Station Case No. 384 of 2024, dated 18.12.2024, disclosing offence under Sections 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’). 3. The prosecution case, as per the First Information Report, is that on 18.12.2024, the police got secret information that at nine number bridge one tempo, bearing registration no. BR01-PM-1655 and one motorcycle, bearing registration no. BH01-HS-0233, are indulged in transportion and sale of illicit liquor. Upon the said information the police party reached at the place of occurrence and apprehended five persons from the said Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.36218 of 2025(2) dt.18-06-2025 2/3 tempo and motorcycle. On search, the police recovered total 30 liters of illicit liquor. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is the first owner of the said tempo, in question, and he has got no criminal antecedent. He further submits that the vehicle, in question, was sold by the petitioner, on 14.03.2022, in favour of one Ravi Kumar by the affidvavit before Notary Public Civil Court, Patna, which would be evident from Annexure-2 to this application. 5. Regards being had to the submission made by the parties and taking into consideration the fact that the vehicle, in question, was sold prior to the date of occurrence through notary affidavit, I am inclined to grant the petitioner privilege of anticipatory bail. 6. This application is, accordingly, allowed. 7. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within four weeks, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Special Excise Judge 2nd, Jehanabad, in connection with Arwal Excise Police Station Case No. 384 of 2024, subject to the condition Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.36218 of 2025(2) dt.18-06-2025 3/3 laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. ashwani/- (Anil Kumar Sinha, J) U T