1 2025:CGHC:51880 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR MCRC No. 8402 of 2025 Vikram Verma S/o Late Kanshram Verma Aged About 68 Years R/o Tarun Nagar, Pandri, Raipur, Tahsil And District - Raipur (C.G.) ... Applicant versus State Of Chhattisgarh Through - Station House Officer, Police Station - Civil Line, Raipur, District - Raipur (C.G.) ... Non-applicant For Applicant : None present For Non-applicant : Mr.Saumya Rai, Panel Lawyer Hon'ble Shri Ramesh Sinha , Chief Justice Order on Board 17.10.2025 1. The applicant has preferred this First Bail Application 483 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for grant of regular bail, as he has been arrested in connection with Crime No.431/2025, registered at Police Station-Civil Line, Raipur, District-Raipur (CG) for the offence punishable under Section 34(2) of the Chhattisgarh Excise Act. 2. The prosecution story in brief, is that, the applicant was found in ABHISHEK SHRIVAS Digitally signed by ABHISHEK SHRIVAS Date: 2025.10.17 20:42:32 +0530 2 possession of 14.400 bulk liters of country-made liquor without there being any authority of law. 3. None appears on behalf of the applicant to press this bail application when the case is called out. No representation is made. 4. It transpires from the record that the applicant is in jail since 8.9.2025, hence, the Court proceeds to consider and hear the bail application of the applicant with the assistance of the State Counsel. 5. Mr. Saumya Rai, learned Panel Lawyer, appearing for the State/non-applicant submits that the applicant has two criminal antecedents of Excise Act, as such, he is habitual offender. 6. I have heard learned counsel for the State and perused the case diary. 7. Considering the previous criminal antecedents of the present applicant as he is habitual offender and further he has misused the bail granted to him earlier, considering the nature of allegation and also in light of the judgment rendered by the Supreme Court in the matter of Deepak Yadav v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Another, reported in (2022) 8 SCC 559, wherein the Supreme Court had cancelled the bail granted to the accused therein on the ground that the accused had previous antecedents, this Court is of the opinion that it is not a fit case to enlarge the applicant on 3 regular bail. Accordingly, the bail application of applicant-Vikram Verma involved in Crime No.431/2025 under Section 34(2) of the Chhattisgarh Excise Act at Police Station Civil Line, Raipur, District Raipur, Chhattisgarh, is rejected. 8. Needless to say that the trial Court concerned is at liberty to proceed and conclude the trial expeditiously. 9. Office is directed to send a certified copy of this order to the trial Court concerned for necessary information and compliance forthwith. Sd/- (Ramesh Sinha) Chief Justice Abhishek