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Ravindra Kumar @ Ravindra Yadav v. The State of Bihar

Patna HC7 May 2026CR. MISC./30884/2026

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What is this about?

In a criminal miscellaneous matter, the Patna High Court granted provisional anticipatory bail to the petitioner in connection with an excise case involving liquor recovery, subject to verification of his criminal antecedents and furnishing of a bail bond with sureties.

What did the court decide?

Release on provisional anticipatory bail by furnishing a bond of Rs. 500 with two sureties of like amount.,

Ravindra Kumar @ Ravindra Yadav Vs The State of Bihar — Anticipatory Bail | Patna HC (2026)

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.30884 of 2026

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Arising Out of PS. Case No.-207 Year-2025 Thana- Dehri Mufassil District- Rohtas

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Ravindra Kumar @ Ravindra Yadav S/o Birdhan Yadav @ Birphan Yadav Resident of Village- Tetariya, P.S.- Hariharganj, District- Palamu (Jharkhand)

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... ... Petitioner/s

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Versus

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The State of Bihar Bihar

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... ... Opposite Party/s

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====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Ms.Mukul Kumari For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Yogendra Kumar Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER

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2 07-05-2026

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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 is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 42 litres of liquor from a motorcycle.

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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 he came to be implicated based on the fact that he is owner of the seized vehicle. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own vehicle for committing an occurrence and thus would

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.30884 of 2026(2) dt.07-05-2026 2/3

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create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated, it is further submitted that petitioner was completely unaware that his friend would misuse the vehicle in the manner as alleged, who also fled from the spot.

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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 within a period of six weeks from today, be released on Provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) 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 Dehri Muffasil P.S. Case No. 207 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 event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even 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 is a

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.30884 of 2026(2) dt.07-05-2026 3/3

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person with clean antecedent 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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Ravindra Kumar @ Ravindra Yadav v. The State of Bihar

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