IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.59419 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-207 Year-2026 Thana- KALYANPUR District- Samastipur ====================================================== Naresh Sahni, aged about 65 years, male, S/o Ram Karan Sahni @ Raj Karan Sahni, R/o village- Koyalkund, P.S.- Kalyanpur, Distt.- Samastipur ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Raja Ram Mishra, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Suresh Prasad Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 2 19-08-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Kalyanpur PS Case No.207 of 2026 dated 10.06.2026, instituted under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act. 3. Allegation is of recovery of fourteen litres country- made liquor from a hut allegedly of the petitioner situated at the bank of Shanti river. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that nothing has been recovered either from the conscious possession or from the house of the petitioner. The recovery has been made from a hut situated at the bank of river. The said hut does not belong to the petitioner. The petitioner has no concern either with the hut or with the recovered illicit liquor. Lastly, it is Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.59419 of 2026(2) dt.19-08-2026 2/3 submitted that one criminal case of the same nature is pending against the petitioner. 5. Learned APP has opposed the prayer for bail. 6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Judge, Excise-1, Samastipur, in Kalyanpur PS Case No.207 of 2026, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, and further (i) that the petitioner shall co-operate in the trial and shall be properly represented on each and every date fixed by the Court and on his absence on two consecutive dates without sufficient reason, his bail bond shall be cancelled by the Court below, (ii) that one of the bailors will be his own blood relation, preferably father, mother, brother, sister and or his wife, (iii) that the bailor shall also state on affidavit that he will inform the court concerned if the petitioner is made accused in any other case of similar nature after his release in the present case and thereafter the court below will be at liberty to initiate Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.59419 of 2026(2) dt.19-08-2026 3/3 the proceeding for cancellation of bail on ground of misuse, and (iv) that if the petitioner tampers with the evidence or the witnesses, in that case, the prosecution will be at liberty to move for cancellation of bail. 7. The application stands allowed. J. Alam/- (Khatim Reza, J) U T