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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.66606 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-229 Year-2025 Thana- Daudnagar Excise District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Pawan Kumar @ Golu Kumar, aged about 19 years, Male, Son of Manoj chaudhari Resident of Purani Shahar Takiya Par ward No 2, PS -Daudnagar, Dist- Aurangabad ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Ashok Kumar No.6, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Tarkeshwar Nath Thakur, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 2 24-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Daudnagar Excise PS Case No. 229 of 2025 dated 04-07-2025, instituted under Sections 30(a) and 30 (c) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act,2018.
3. The allegation is of recovery of 2070 litres of fermented jaggery solution and 30 litres of fermented illicit liquor from inside the bushes of Sone Diyara.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is submitted that two persons namely Sachin Kumar and Gaurav Kumar were apprehend at the spot who
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.66606 of 2025(2) dt.24-09-2025 2/2 disclosed the name of the petitioner. It is submitted that the petitioner was not arrested at the spot and he has no concern with the seized liquor. Petitioner has been implicated merely on the basis of disclosures made by the apprehended co-accused. Lastly, it has been submitted that petitioner has no criminal antecedents.
5. Learned APP has opposed the prayer for bail.
6. Having considered the 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 bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Special Judge Excise-II, Aurangabad, in Daudnagar Excise PS Case No. 229 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023.
7. The application stands allowed.
shyambihari/- (Khatim Reza, J) U