IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.14895 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-3 Year-2026 Thana- MEHSI District- East Champaran ====================================================== MUKESH KUMAR Son of Bikhari Sah @ Bhikhari Sah Resident of Village - Mohabbat Chhapra, P.S.- Mehsi, District - East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Suraj Kumar Tiwari For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Arun Kumar Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 16-03-2026 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 Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2022. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of two cases under the Excise Act and allegation is of recovery of 54.75 litres of liquor from a bamboo orchard. 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 a place which does not belong to the petitioner and is accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is next submitted that if Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.14895 of 2026(2) dt.16-03-2026 2/3 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 once an accused is implicated in a case relating to excise, the police starts implicating mechanically either through chowkidar, local person, confessional statement or secret information without holding a proper investigation. 4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner. 5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, 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.10,000/- (Rupees ten 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 Mehsi P.S. Case No.03/2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S. 6. It is made clear that the learned trial court thereafter shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more than Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.14895 of 2026(2) dt.16-03-2026 3/3 two cases, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if on verification it is found that petitioner has antecedent of two cases, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. amit/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T