IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.66485 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-59 Year-2025 Thana- SAHPUR District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Sonu Singh @ Sonu Kumar Singh S/o Kamal Singh R/o Village- Sarna, P.S.- Shahpur, District- Bhojpur. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Anil Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Akshay Lal Pandit, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ARUN KUMAR JHA ORAL ORDER 2 24-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. 02. In the present case, the petitioner seeks bail in connection with Shahpur P.S. Case No. 59 of 2025 registered for the alleged offences Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition & Excise Act, 2016. 03. As per prosecution case, police received information about three persons selling liquor behind the house of the petitioner. The police reached there and found three persons sitting there with cartons and plastic sacks, who ran away on seeing the police vehicle leaving behind their belongings. The police party, on inquiry, came to know about the petitioner who was also one of the escaped persons. From the cartons and sacks, recovery of 73.98 liters of India made Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.66485 of 2025(2) dt.24-09-2025 2/3 foreign liquor and 12.8 liters of country made liquor was made. 04. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has been falsely implicated in this case. The petitioner was not apprehended from the spot and nothing incriminating has been recovered from the person or possession of the petitioner. The recovery has been made from an open place, which is accessible to all, and due to dispute between the petitioner and chowkidar, the petitioner has been named in this case. The petitioner is having clean antecedent and is in custody since 27.06.2025. Charge-sheet has been submitted. 05. Learned APP for the State opposes the submission made on behalf of the petitioner. 06. Having regard to the facts and circumstances and submissions made on behalf of the parties and considering the period of custody of the petitioner and his clean antecedent along with submission of charge-sheet, the petitioner above named is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Exclusive Special Judge, Excise Court No.2, Bhojpur at Ara/court concerned in connection with Shahpur P.S. Case No. 59 of 2025, subject to Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.66485 of 2025(2) dt.24-09-2025 3/3 the conditions mentioned in Section 480(3) of BNSS and the following conditions: (i) One of the bailors will be a close relative of the petitioner. (ii) The petitioner will remain present on each and every date fixed by the court below. (iii) In case of absence on three consecutive dates or in violation of the terms of the bail, the bail bond of the petitioner will be liable to be cancelled by the court concerned. Ashish/- (Arun Kumar Jha, J) U T