IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.41445 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-12 Year-2025 Thana- CHENARI District- Rohtas ====================================================== Pawan Kumar @ Pawan Kumar Jhunjhunwala S/o Girdhari Lal Jhunjhunwala Resident of Village- Ward No. 36, Barah Patthar, Gali No. 09, Dehri, P.s- Dehri(T),Dehri-on-sone, Bihar, PIN- 845455 ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Mukesh Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Humayou Ahmad Khan, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 6 02-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2. Petitioner apprehends arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 319(2), 318(4), 338, 336(3), 340(2), 61(2), 3(5), 111 and 297 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and section 11 of the Bengal Gambling Act and sections 3 and 4 of the Bihar Bengal Lottery Act. 3. As per prosecution case, petitioner is owner of the printing press in which illegal lottery coupons were being printed. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. Though the petitioner was owner of the Press, but the same was being run by one Manish Kumar and petitioner is not responsible for his illegal act. Petitioner claims clean antecedent. 5. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer for bail. He submits that the petitioner was owner of the printing press in which illegal lottery coupons were being printed. Besides this, petitioner has got 15 criminal antecedents in which some of them are of similar nature. 6. Considering the nature and gravity of accusation Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.41445 of 2025(6) dt.02-02-2026 2/2 and criminal antecedents of the petitioner, prayer for bail of the petitioner is rejected. shashi/- (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) U T