IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.7473 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-242 Year-2025 Thana- PIPRA District- Supaul ====================================================== 1. Babul Singh @ Babul Kumar S/O Jotindra Singh Resident of village Narayanpur, ward no. - 12,raghopur, P.S. - Raghopur, District -Supaul. 2. Suresh Mukhiya Son of Badri Mukhiya Resident of village Narayanpur, ward no.-12, raghopur, P.S. raghopur, District - Supaul. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Yugal Kishore, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Dr. Kumar Uday Pratap, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 19-02-2026 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 offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 43.5 liters of liquor from an Auto. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners were not apprehended from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and are not the owner of the seized Auto and he came to be implicated based on Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.7473 of 2026(2) dt.19-02-2026 2/3 confessional statement of Sunita in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners. 6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Trial Court 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 S.T. Excise Case No. 734 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the BNSS. 7. It is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioners and in the event if it is found that any of the petitioners have antecedent of even one case then it would be presumed that petitioners, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed their antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioners are persons with Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.7473 of 2026(2) dt.19-02-2026 3/3 clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. Rishabh/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T