IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.22552 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-11 Year-2026 Thana- Mufassil District- Khagaria ====================================================== 1. Veer Singh S/o Jay Prakash Singh @ Prakash Singh Resident of Village - Mehsauri Ward No. 02, P.S - Muffasil, District - Khagaria 2. Chandan Kumar @ Chandan Singh S/o Natho Mahto Resident of Village - Mehsauri Ward No. 02, P.S - Muffasil, District - Khagaria ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Bhim Kumar Yadav For the Opposite Party/s : Ms. Indu Kumari Srivastava ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 08-04-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 174.24 litres of liquor from two different vehicle. It is next submitted that petitioners were not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and are not owner of the seized vehicle and they came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with whom they are on Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.22552 of 2026(2) dt.08-04-2026 2/3 an inimical term. It is also submitted that if chowkidar was 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 chowkidar in order to save the real culprit falsely implicated the petitioners, when petitioners admittedly are persons with clean antecedent. 4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners. 5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.500/- (Rupees five hundred) each 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 Muffasil P.S. Case No.11/2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S. 6. It is made clear that thereafter the learned trial court thereafter shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioners and in the event if it is found that petitioners have antecedent of even one case, in that event, it would be presumed that Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.22552 of 2026(2) dt.08-04-2026 3/3 petitioners had concealed their antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed with respect to those petitioners whose criminal antecedent does not tally but if after verification the criminal antecedent as recorded hereinabove tallies with the petitioners in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. amit/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T