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Munna Kumar @ Munn Rai @ Munna Rai v. The State of Bihar

Patna HC19 Apr 2025CR. MISC./83595/2024

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Anticipatory bail; provisional anticipatory bail; Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act 2016 Section 30(a); Sections 272 273 IPC; recovery of 21 litres of liquor; Thawa Temple; Saraiya P.S. Case No. 279 of 2022; Muzaffarpur; criminal antecedent verification by trial court; Section 438(2) Cr.P.C.; bail bonds Rs.10,000/- two sureties; Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83595 of 2024; Satyavrat Verma J; oral order dated 19-04-2025.

What did the court decide?

Provisional anticipatory bail granted: release upon arrest/surrender within six weeks on bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each, subject to Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. conditions, with confirmation dependent on trial-court verification of criminal antecedents (confirmed forthwith if only two cases; not confirmed if more than two). ¶20

Munna Kumar @ Munn Rai @ Munna Rai Vs The State of Bihar — Anticipatory Bail | Patna HC (2025)

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.83595 of 2024

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Arising Out of PS. Case No.-279 Year-2022 Thana- SARAIYA District- Muzaffarpur

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Munna Kumar @ Munn Rai @ Munna Rai S/o Late Sogarath Rai Resident of Village - Khajauli PS - Lalganj, Dist. - Vaishali

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar

... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Sheo Kumar Prasad For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Rabindra Kumar, A.P.P. ======================================================

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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER

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3 19-04-2025

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Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.

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Rabindra Kumar, learned A.P.P. for the State.

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The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 272 and 273 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

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Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of two cases.

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Allegation is of recovery of 21 litres of liquor from a place near a Thawa Temple.

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Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be implicated based on the confessional

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83595 of 2024(3) dt.19-04-2025 2/3

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statement of apprehended accused in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value in the eye of law. It is further submitted that after amendment in the Excise Act in the year 2018, the concept of deemed possession and presumed offender has been done away with.

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Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

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Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, let the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below 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 court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Saraiya P.S. Case No. 279 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

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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 more than two cases in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if it is found on verification that petitioner has

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83595 of 2024(3) dt.19-04-2025 3/3

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antecedent of only two cases in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

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(Satyavrat Verma, J)

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Kundan/-

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