IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.8354 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-13 Year-2025 Thana- LAKHNAUR District- Madhubani ====================================================== Shravan Mahto @ Shravan Kumar S/O Late Basudev Mahto Resident of Village- Sonar Patti, P.S- Lakhnaur, District- Madhubani, Bihar. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Sumit Kumar Jha For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Tarkeshwar Nath Thakur ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 27-02-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner seeks bail in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 274, 275 and 3(5) of BNS and Section 30(A) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 450 litres of liquor from a place near a road. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is also submitted that if chowkidar was Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.8354 of 2026(2) dt.27-02-2026 2/2 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. It is also submitted that it appears that the chowkidar in order to save the real culprit falsely implicated the petitioner, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent. 4. Learned A.P.P. opposes the prayer for bail of the petitioner. 5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, is directed to be released on 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 Lakhnaur P.S. Case No.13 of 2025. amit/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T