IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.18637 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-16 Year-2026 Thana- KORANSARAI District- Buxar ====================================================== Pappu Yadav S/o Mithu Yadav R/o Village - Sughar Dera, P.S - Koransarai, District - Buxar ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Dr. Kamal Deo Sharma For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Lakshmi Kant Sharma ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 2 08-04-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. This application for grant of anticipatory bail arises out of Koransarai Police Station Case No. 16 of 2026, dated 03.02.2026, disclosing offence under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2018. 3. The prosecution case, as per the First Information Report, is that on 03.02.2026, during patrolling, the police received secret information that the petitioner was engaged in illegal liquor trade in his dalan (corridor) behind his grocery store at village Sughar Dera. Upon the information, the police party reached the place of occurrence, where one person, on seeing the police, fled away and succeeded in it. On search, about 2.1 litres of Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.18637 of 2026(2) dt.08-04-2026 2/3 country-made illicit liquor was recovered. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case due to secret information and oblique motive. The name of the petitioner has transpired on the basis of disclosure by the local choukidar. He next submits that illicit liquor has not been been recovered from conscious possession of the petitioner and/or from the premises belonging to him. Rather, illicit liquor has been recovered from dalan (corridor) near his house, which is an open space accessible to all and sundry. 5. Regards being had to the submission made by the parties and taking into consideration the fact that illicit liquor has not been recovered from conscious possession of the petitioner and/or his premises, rather, the same has been recovered from dalan near petitioner’s house which is open space accessible to all and sundry, I am inclined to grant the petitioner privilege of anticipatory bail. 6. This application is, accordingly, allowed. 7. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within four weeks, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.18637 of 2026(2) dt.08-04-2026 3/3 (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Judge Excise Court No. I, Buxar, in connection with Koransarai Police Station Case No. 16 of 2026, subject to the condition laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. ashwani/- (Anil Kumar Sinha, J) U T