IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.57500 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-228 Year-2025 Thana- NAUTAN District- West Champaran ====================================================== Dharmendar Yadav S/o Lalbabu Yadav, R/o Vill. - Manhalpur Kala Ward No.2, Police Station - Nautan, District- West Champaran. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar. ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Sarvesh Kashyap, Advocate. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Dilip Kumar No.1, APP. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 2 09-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Nautan P.S. Case No.228 of 2025 instituted under Sections 30(a) & 41(1) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act. 3. As per the prosecution case, on secret information that petitioner is selling illicit liquor by keeping it into the sugarcane field, the police raided the said place and recovered 25.74 litre illicit foreign made liquor from the sugarcane field situated near the bathan of Dharmendra Yadav at Village Mangalpur. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case only on the basis of suspicion. He further submits that the petitioner was not present on the spot and no incriminating article has been recovered from his conscious possession. Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.57500 of 2025(2) dt.09-09-2025 2/2 Learned counsel submits that petitioner has no concern either with the seized liquor or with the place from where the liquor was seized. He further submits that recovery has been made from the sugarcane field which is an open place and accessible to public at large. Learned counsel submits that 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 concerned Court 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-I, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Nautan P.S. Case No.228 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Ritik/- (Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) U T