IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.11611 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-242 Year-2025 Thana- SHANKARPUR District- Madhepura ====================================================== Amod Yadav son of Jitendra Yadav Resident Of Village- Navtoliya Shankarpur, Ward No 14, P S -Shankarpur, District -Madhepura ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Pooja Prasad, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Mritunjay Kumar Nirala, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AJIT KUMAR ORAL ORDER 2 17-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Shankarpur P.S. Case No.242 of 2025, F.I.R dated 23.11.2025 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Amendment Act, 2018. 3. As per the prosecution case, on 23.10.2025 at about 6:00 PM, the informant received secret information that Amod Yadav was selling country-made liquor. Acting on this information, the police reached his house, where two persons carrying gallons attempted to flee and successfully escaped. Upon searching the kitchen, the police recovered 83 liters of Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.11611 of 2026(2) dt.17-02-2026 2/3 country-made liquor and destroyed 150 liters of semi-prepared liquor at the spot. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the recovery is said to have been made from a house which is in joint possession and the kitchen from where the recovery is shown, is being jointly used by all family members and merely on the basis of suspicion and looking to his previous criminal antecedent, he has been roped in the present case. 5. Learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail application. 6. Regard being had to the submission made by the parties, taking into consideration the fact that illicit liquor has not been recovered from the constructive possession and / or premises belonging to the petitioner, accordingly, this Court is inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 7. Let the petitioner, above named, be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the court below within a period of four weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned District Additional Sessions Judge-V-cum-Special Judge Excise-I, Madhepura, in connection with Shankarpur P.S. Case Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.11611 of 2026(2) dt.17-02-2026 3/3 No.242 of 2025 subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S., 2023. sharun/- (Ajit Kumar, J) U T