IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.27489 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-214 Year-2025 Thana- MANIYARI District- Muzaffarpur ====================================================== Ankul Kumar S/o- Late Shankar Sah R/v- Fulwariya Ps- maniyari Dist- Muzaffarpur ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Santosh Kumar For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Ajay Kumar No. 2 ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 4 02-07-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. 2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 262 of the B.N.S. and Section 30(a) of the Excise Act. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 7.5 litres of liquor from possession of the petitioner. 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 rather a case has been made out that villagers caught the petitioner with liquor but he fled away. It is next reiterated and submitted that petitioner is a Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27489 of 2026(4) dt.02-07-2026 2/3 person with clean antecedent and he has been falsely implicated at the instance of villagers, but then the FIR does not disclose the name of the villager who caught the petitioner and alleges that petitioner fled away. 5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail application. 6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner, above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on provisional anticipatory bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum 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 Maniyari P. S. Case No.214 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 7. The application stands allowed. 8. The application stands allowed. 8. It is made clear that the learned trial Court after accepting the provisional bail bonds of the petitioner shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event, if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, then it would be presumed that petitioner for the purposes of obtaining Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27489 of 2026(4) dt.02-07-2026 3/3 anticipatory bail had concealed his antecedent before this Court, in that event, the present 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. vikash/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T