IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.89781 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-409 Year-2025 Thana- PAKARIBARAW District- Nawada ====================================================== Premlata Devi W/o Dharmendra Manjhi Resident of Village- Kachana, P.S.- Pakriwarwan, P.S.- Pakriwarwan, Distt- Nawada ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Amit Ranjan, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Raj Kishor Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 2 23-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Pakriwarwan PS. Case No. 409 of 2025 dated 16-10-2025, instituted under Sections 30(a) and 41 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act,2022. 3. The allegation is of recovery of 6 liters of country- made liquor from the house of the petitioner. 4.Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and she has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is further contended that no incriminating article has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner; rather, the alleged liquor was recovered from a house which is under the joint ownership of Savita Devi, Raj Kumar Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.89781 of 2025(2) dt.23-12-2025 2/2 Manjhi and the petitioner. It is further submitted that at the time of the raid one person, namely Raj Kumar Manjhi, was apprehended at the spot. The petitioner has no concern with the alleged illicit liquor, which was recovered in presence of the said apprehended person. Lastly, it is submitted that the 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 Exclusive Special Excise Judge- 1st , Nawada, in Pakriwarwan PS. Case No. 409 of 2025 , subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023. shyambihari/- (Khatim Reza, J) U