IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.91676 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-1835 Year-2025 Thana- PHULWARISHARIF District- Patna ====================================================== Bhadru Paswan @ Akash Kumar son of Late Umesh paswan Resident of Village- Ranipur Dusaj Toli, Ps- Phulwari Sharif, Dist- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Saket Anand For the Opposite Party/s : Ms. Shaheen Begum ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 13-01-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Phulwarisharif P.S. Case No.1835/2025, registered for the offence punishable under Sections 8(c), 21(b), 8, 20 (b) (ii)(a) of the NDPS Act and Sections 30(a) and 37 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 15.2 grams of smack along with 2.81 grams of Ganza and 6 litres of liquor from possession of Chandra Bhushan Kumar. 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 Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.91676 of 2025(2) dt.13-01-2026 2/2 Chandra Bhushan but then he came to be implicated based on confessional statement of Chandra Bhushan in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value. 4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner and submits that allegation is of recovery of smach and ganza from Chandra Bhushan and it was in his confession that name of the petitioner transpired. It is also submitted that investigation of the case is in its nascent stages. 5. Considering the submissions made by the learned APP, the Court is not inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. The anticipatory bail application of the petitioner is rejected. amit/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T