Deepak Kumar Vs The State of Bihar

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.47460 of 2026

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Arising Out of PS. Case No.-826 Year-2025 Thana- MOTIHARI MUFASIL District- East Champaran

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Deepak Kumar S/o Ramaji Mukhiya R/o Village- Harkaina , P.S- Muffasil , District- East Champaran

... ... Petitioner/s

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The State of Bihar

... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Vijay Shankar Shrivastava For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Arun Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER

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2 21-07-2026

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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 Sections 30(a) and 41 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 250 litres of liquor from a bamboo orchard.

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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 bamboo orchard which does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be implicated at the instance of

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.47460 of 2026(2) dt.21-07-2026 2/3

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Chowkidar with whom he is on an inimical term. It is next submitted that if 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.

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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 Muffasil P.S. Case No. 826 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.47460 of 2026(2) dt.21-07-2026 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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Deepak Kumar v. The State of Bihar

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