IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.18575 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-404 Year-2025 Thana- DIGHWARA District- Saran ====================================================== 1. Guddu Kumar S/O Surendra Rai @ Suresh Rai R/O Vill.- Saidpur Baghi, P.S.- Dighwara, Dist.- Saran. 2. Bittu Kumar @ Bitatu Kumar S/O Surendra Rai @ Suresh Rai R/O Vill.- Saidpur Baghi, P.S.- Dighwara, Dist.- Saran. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar patna ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Dewendra Narayan Singh For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Bishweshwar Ram ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 2 08-04-2026 1. Heard the parties. 2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Dighwara P.S. Case No. 404 of 2025 dated 10.10.2025 registered under Sections 30 (a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2022. 3. As per the F.I.R. a total quantity of 10.500 liters of foreign liquor, kept near the boundary of late Parshuram Pathak, has been recovered. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are innocent and they have not committed any offence in the manner alleged. He further submits that name of the petitioners has surfaced in this case on the the disclosure made by the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.18575 of 2026(2) dt.08-04-2026 2/2 local Chaukidar. The alleged recovery of foreign liquor has not been made from the conscious possession and / or premises belonging to the petitioners. Illicit foreign liquor has been recovered from an open space accessible to all and sundry. 5. Regard being had to the submission made by the parties, taking into consideration the fact that illicit foreign liquor has been recovered from an open space easily accessible to everyone, accordingly, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Let the petitioners, 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Additional Sessions Judge cum Exclusive Special Court , Excise Act – 1 , Saran at Chapra in connection with Dighwara P.S. Case No. 404 of 2025 subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the B.N.S.S. 2023. praful/- (Anil Kumar Sinha, J) U T