Shivlal Marandi Vs The State of Bihar

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Vijay Kumar Vimal For the Opposite Party/s : Md. Matloob Rab ======================================================

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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER

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2 22-01-2026

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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 10 litres of liquor from a place behind the house of the petitioner apart from other recoveries as recorded in the FIR.

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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.1757 of 2026(2) dt.22-01-2026 2/3

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but then is adjacent to his house as such he came to be implicated at the instance of Chowkidar but then it is submitted that if the Chowkidar was aware about 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 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 Tikapatti P.S. Case No. 158 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

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.1757 of 2026(2) dt.22-01-2026 3/3

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shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the 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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Shivlal Marandi v. The State of Bihar

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