IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.74986 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-374 Year-2025 Thana- PATAHI District- East Champaran ====================================================== Rinku Devi W/o Mahesh Sahani Resident of village - Parsauni Kapoor, P.S - Patahi, District - East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Abhishek Kumar For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Dr. Kumar Uday Pratap ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 12-11-2025 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman and allegation is of recovery of 43.2 litres of liquor from a sugarcane field. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from her conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a sugarcane field does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large and she came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with whom her husband is on an inimical term. 4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner. Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.74986 of 2025(2) dt.12-11-2025 2/2 5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.500/- (Rupees five hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Patahi P.S. Case No. 374/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S. 6. It is made clear that the learned trial court thereafter shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed her antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if on verification it is found that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. amit/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T