IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.32430 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-106 Year-2026 Thana- PANAPUR District- Saran ====================================================== Anuj Singh @ Anuj Kumar Singh S/O Jitendra Singh @ Jitendra Kumar Singh R/O Vill.- Fakuli - Panapur, P.S - Panapur, Dist.- Saran at Chapra ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Ajit Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Aditya Narayan Singh 1, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 2 13-05-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act. 3. As per prosecution case, on seeing the police, two persons managed to flee away from the spot. The mahal chaukidar disclosed their names as Jitendra Singh and Anuj Singh (petitioner). During search of nearby place of the house of co-accused Jitendra Singh, 9 litres of Indian made foreign liquor was recovered. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. Nothing has been recovered from conscious possession of the petitioner. The name of petitioner surfaced in this case only on the basis of disclosure statement made by mahal chaukidar Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.32430 of 2026(2) dt.13-05-2026 2/2 due to inimical term. The alleged recovery has been made from an abandoned place and petitioner has no concern with the seized illicit liquor. Petitioner has one criminal antecedent in which he is on bail. Petitioner undertakes to cooperate in the investigation and the trial. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. 6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, submissions of learned counsel for the parties and the facts that the name of petitioner surfaced on the basis of disclosure statement made by mahal chaukidar and alleged recovery was made from an abandoned place, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court of Special Judge Excise-02, Saran at Chapra in connection with Panapur P.S. Case No. 106 of 2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Harish/- (Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) U T