IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13128 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-837 Year-2025 Thana- VAISHALI District- Vaishali ====================================================== Amresh Kumar Son of Vinay Kumar Sahni @ Vinay Sahni Resident of village- Jarangi Jarang Rampur, P.S- Vaishali, (Balsar OP) Dist- Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Anuj Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Anant Kumar 1, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 10-03-2026 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 the Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 35 litres of liquor from a motorcycle. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession. It is further submitted that petitioner is not the owner of the seized vehicle and came to be implicated at the instance of the Chawkidar but then it is submitted that if the Chawkidar was aware of the involvement of the petitioner in the occurrence then why he did not inform Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13128 of 2026(2) dt.10-03-2026 2/3 the police prior to the institution of the instant FIR which casts an aspersion on the case of the prosecution. It is next submitted that it appears that the Chawkidar, in order to save the real culprits, falsely implicated the petitioner, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner. 6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, let 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.1,000/- (Rupees One 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 Vaishali (Belsar O.P.) P.S. Case No. 837 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C./482(2) of the B.N.S.S. 7. It is made clear that thereafter the learned trial court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this Court at para 3 of the anticipatory bail application in Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13128 of 2026(2) dt.10-03-2026 3/3 that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if it is found on verification that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. Kundan/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T