IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.56398 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-108 Year-2025 Thana- PARSAUNI District- Sitamarhi ====================================================== Ajay Ray @ Ajay Rai, S/o Mohar Ray, R/o Village - Bhagwanpur, P.S. - Parsauni, District - Sitamarhi ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Santosh Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mrs. Madhuri Lata, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 2 08-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Parsauni P.S. Case No. 108 of 2025 for the offence registered under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition & Excise Act. 3. As per the prosecution case, on a secret information that the petitioner along with other co-accused persons have hiding the liquor in a tent used to keep bhusa. On search, total 66 litres of illicit foreign liquorand 78 litres of Nepali liquor were recovered from three sacks. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case on the basis of suspicion. The place of occurrence from where the recovery was made does not belong to the petitioner. Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.56398 of 2025(2) dt.08-09-2025 2/2 Petitioner has three criminal antecedents in which he is on bail. Petitioner undertakes to cooperate in the trial. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail and submits that the petitioner has three criminal antecedents of similar nature. Therefore, petitioner does not deserve the privilege of bail. 6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, submissions of learned counsel for the parties, and the fact that petitioner has three criminal antecedents of similar nature and he is a habitual offender, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, his prayer for anticipatory bail is, hereby, rejected. khushbu/- (Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) U T