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2025 DAILYLAW 64294 (PAT)

Sankar Shahni v. The State of Bihar

CR. MISC./51884/2025 · 2025-08-18

Sunil Dutta Mishra

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.51884 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-714 Year-2024 Thana- KADAMKUAN District- Patna ====================================================== Sankar Shahni, S/o Raju Shahani, Resident of village- railway hunter road rajendra nagar, P.S.- Kadamkuwa, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Binay Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Madhura Nand Jha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 2 18-08-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Kadamkuwa P.S. Case No. 714 of 2024 for the offence registered under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition & Excise Act. 3. As per the prosecution case, 1.080 litres foreign liquor was recovered from the back of a gumti. It is alleged that the petitioner has fled away from the spot after seeing the police. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case due to local politics. Petitioner was neither present on the spot nor any incriminating article has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner. Further submission is Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.51884 of 2025(2) dt.18-08-2025 2/2 that petitioner has no concern with the seized liquor. The seized liquor or the gumti in question, does not belong to the petitioner. Petitioner has no criminal antecedent and he undertakes to cooperate in the investigation and trial. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. 6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Special Judge Excise Court No. II, Patna in connection with Kadamkuwa P.S. Case No. 714 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S., 2023. khushbu/- (Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) U T