IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.12288 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-302 Year-2025 Thana- MANIHARI District- Katihar ====================================================== Mannu Yadav @ Manu Yadav S/o Late Hari Prasad Yadav R/o Village - Mirzapur Mushahari Tola, P.S - Manihari, District - Katihar ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Jitendra Kumar Pandey, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Ajay Kumar No. 2, A.P.P. ====================================================== 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 apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of one case and allegation is of recovery of 90 litres of liquor from a sack. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner. It is further submitted that petitioner came to be implicated based on the confessional statement of Sagar Singh in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value in the eye of law. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.12288 of 2026(2) dt.27-02-2026 2/2 anticipatory bail of the petitioner. 6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, let the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.5,000/- (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 Manihari P.S. Case No. 302 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C./482(2) of the BNSS. 7. 7. It is made clear that thereafter the learned trial court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more than one case, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this Court at para 3 of the anticipatory bail application in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if it is found on verification that petitioner has antecedent of only one case in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. Kundan/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T