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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.27760 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-524 Year-2025 Thana- LALGANJ District- Vaishali ====================================================== Veerchandra Kumar S/o Shivchandra Paswan R/o Village - Panchdamiya, P.S - Lalganj, Dist . - Vaishali. ... ... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. Niranjan Parihar, Advocate For the Opposite Party : Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tiwary, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRAVEEN KUMAR ORAL ORDER 3 13-05-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. This application for anticipatory bail arises out of Lalganj P.S. Case No. 524 of 2025 registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act.
3. As per allegation, 25 liters of country made liquor and 800 liters of raw jawa was recovered from the hut of this petitioner.
4. It has been submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner, by making specific averment in the supplementary affidavit, that the hut does not belong to the petitioner and the owner of the hut is one Pravind Paswan with whom the petitioner has got no concern. It has further been submitted that the search and seizure is in violation of Section 103 BNSS and
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27760 of 2026(3) dt.13-05-2026 2/2 the petitioner has got no criminal antecedents.
5. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer of anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
6. Heard the parties and perused the record.
7. Considering the facts and circumstances and the statements made in paragraph 2 of the supplementary affidavit, let the petitioner above named, in the event of his arrest/surrender within six weeks from today in the Court below, 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 the learned Exclusive Special Excise Court-1st -cum-District & Additional Sessions Judge, Vaishali at Hajipur, in connection with Lalganj P.S. Case No. 524 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita.
Pawan/- (Praveen Kumar, J) U T