Vakil Manjhi Vs The State of Bihar

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Mrityunjay Kumar Tiwary For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Rabindra Kumar ======================================================

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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER

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2 17-06-2026

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Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

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A.P.P. for the State Mr. Rabindra Kumar.

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

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Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 62 litres of liquor from a place near Bagwani of Sirisia. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even alleged recovery is from a place which does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be implicated at the instance of chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is also submitted that if chowkidar was aware of the

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.37477 of 2026(2) dt.17-06-2026 2/3

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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.

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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, 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 Bheldi P.S. Case No.329/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

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It is made clear that the learned trial court thereafter shall verify the criminal antecedents of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case, in that event, it would be presumed that petitioner had concealed his antecedent before this court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed but if on verification it is found that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.37477 of 2026(2) dt.17-06-2026 3/3

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shall be confirmed forthwith.

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(Satyavrat Verma, J)

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amit/-

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Vakil Manjhi v. The State of Bihar

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