IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.57836 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-107 Year-2026 Thana- SATHI District- West Champaran ====================================================== Manturi Devi W/o Sunil Mukhiya Resident of Village - Basantpur, Ward No. 01, P.S - Sathi, District - West Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Sujeet Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Rajendra Prasad Nat, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 20-08-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 274 and 275 of the BNS read with Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of one case under the Excise Act and is a woman and allegation is of recovery of 12 liters of liquor from a sugarcane field behind the house of the petitioner. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from her conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner, but then is adjacent to her house and she came to be implicated Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.57836 of 2026(2) dt.20-08-2026 2/3 at the instance of Chowkidar with whom her husband is on an inimical term. It is also submitted that in order to coerce her husband into submission, the Chowkidar falsely implicated the petitioner. It is also submitted that if Chowkidar was aware of the involvement of the petitioner in the occurrence then why he did not inform the police prior to institution of the instant FIR which casts an aspersion on the case of the prosecution. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner. 6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned Trial Court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on Provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 5000/- (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 Sathi P.S. Case No. 107 of 2026 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the BNSS. 7. It is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.57836 of 2026(2) dt.20-08-2026 3/3 than one case then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed her antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of one case only, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. Rishabh/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T