IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.89696 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-507 Year-2024 Thana- ISLAMPUR District- Nalanda ====================================================== Suren Nut @ Suren Sapera S/O Late kripalu sapera R/O Village- Khatolna Bigha, P.S- Islampur, District - Nalanda ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Pramod Kumar Sinha For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Nand Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 2 27-01-2025 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. This application for grant of anticipatory bail arises out of Islampur Police Station Case No. 507 of 2024, dated 21.09.2024, disclosing offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016. 3. The prosecution case, as per the First Information Report, is that the police, on secret information that the petitioner is selling illicit liquor in east Khandha of the village, reached at the place of occurrence and on seeing the police, four persons sitting with plastic gallons, fled away. The local villagers disclosed the name of the petitioner and other accused persons as the persons who fled away. On search, the police recovered 170 litres of illicit Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.89696 of 2024(2) dt.27-01-2025 2/2 country-made liquor from the Khandha of the village. 4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case on the basis of disclosure of his name by the co- villagers due to village politics. He further submits that the petitioner has got no concern with the illicit liquor recovered from the Khandha of the village, which is an open space and is accessible to all and sundry. 5. Regards being had to the submission advanced on behalf of the parties concerned and taking into consideration the fact that the petitioner has got four criminal antecedents of similar nature of offence, I am not inclined to grant the petitioner privilege of anticipatory bail. 6. This application is, accordingly, dismissed. Prabhakar Anand/- (Anil Kumar Sinha, J.) U √ T √