Ramchandra Rai Vs The State of Bihar

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Hemant Kumar For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Parmanand Prasad ======================================================

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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER

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2 10-03-2026

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1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

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2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.

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3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has antecedent of one case under the Excise Act and allegation is of recovery of 200 litres of liquor from Domo ghat along with 10,000 litres of mahua pass which was destroyed at the spot.

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4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the 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

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.12882 of 2026(2) dt.10-03-2026 2/3

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and is accessible to public at large and he came to be implicated at the instance of local people, but then the name of the person, who disclosed the name of the petitioner is not disclosed in the FIR, which casts an aspersion on the case of the prosecution. It is further submitted that once an accused is implicated in a case relating to excise, the police starts implicating mechanically either at the instance of Chowkidar, local person, confessional statement or secret information without holding a proper investigation.

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

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6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his 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. 5,000/- (Rupees Five 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 Sonpur P.S. Case No. 1240 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS.

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7. It is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.12882 of 2026(2) dt.10-03-2026 3/3

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event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of more than one case then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of one case in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

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(Satyavrat Verma, J)

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Sumit/-

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Ramchandra Rai v. The State of Bihar

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