IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.16678 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-276 Year-2024 Thana- RAFIGANJ District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Indal Chaudhary @ Lotha Chaudhary S/o- Late Sanichar Chaudhary R/v- Naiki Ps- Rafiganj Dist- Aurangabad ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Santosh Kumar Pandey For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Kumar Ranjit Ranjan ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 17-04-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. 2. The petitioner seeks bail in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Excise Act. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of five cases under the Excise Act and allegation is of recovery of 22 litres of liquor from house of the petitioner along with 150 litres of jawa mahua which was destroyed and 350 litres of jawa mahua was destroyed from two different places. 4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even the house in question is a joint family property and thus, it cannot be alleged with certainty that it was the petitioner, who had kept the liquor Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.16678 of 2026(2) dt.17-04-2026 2/2 in the house or the liquor kept in the house was within his knowledge and he came to be implicated based on secret information, which is the easiest way to implicate someone. It is next submitted that police in majority of cases implicating innocent persons either at the behest of Chaukidar, local person, secret information and confessional statement in a mechanical manner without holding a proper investigation. It is further submitted that petitioner is in custody since 06.12.2025. It is also submitted that petitioner will not abscond rather will cooperate in the trial to prove his innocence. 5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the bail application. 6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner, above-named, is directed to be released on regular bail on his furnishing bail- bonds in the sum of Rs.5,000/- (Rupees Five Thousand) 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 Rafiganj P. S. Case No.276 of 2024. 7. The application stands allowed. vikash/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T