IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.69060 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-361 Year-2023 Thana- CHAKAND District- Gaya ====================================================== Kabutri Devi W/o Rambriksh Manjhi R/o vill - Siyadih, P.S.- Tekari, Distt.- gaya ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Krishna Prabhat, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Syed Ehteshamuddin, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AJIT KUMAR ORAL ORDER 2 08-10-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in connection with Chakand P.S. Case No. 361 of 2023 registered for the offences under Sections 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2022. 3. As per the prosecution story, on confidential information, police intercepted two motorcycles. The riders fled, but the police recovered a total of 45 liters of Desi Mahua liquor —20 liters from one motorcycle and 25 liters from the other. Investigation revealed that Dipu Chaudhary is allegedly involved in the illegal liquor trade. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.69060 of 2025(2) dt.08-10-2025 2/3 motorcycle from where the recovery is said to have been made belongs to this petitioner while the seized articles were recovered from the seat of the said motorcycle, does not belong to the petitioner. The said motorcycle was being driven by his son and he had parked the said motorcycle in an open place and it appears that somebody has misused the said vehicle by keeping the seized articles over it and petitioner is a lady having clean antecedent. 5. Learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail application. 6. Regard being had to the submission made by the parties, taking into consideration the fact that illicit liquor has not been recovered from the conscious possession and / or premises belonging to the petitioner and the petitioner has clean antecedent, accordingly, this Court is inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 7. Let the petitioner, above named, be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the court below within a period of four weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Exclusive Special Excise Court No.4, Gaya, in Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.69060 of 2025(2) dt.08-10-2025 3/3 connection with Chakand P.S. Case No. 361 of 2023 subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S., 2023. sharun/- (Ajit Kumar, J) U T