Manish Kumar Vs The State of Bihar

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.6779 of 2026

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Arising Out of PS. Case No.-363 Year-2025 Thana- BIBHUTIPUR District- Samastipur

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Manish Kumar Son of Vinod Ray R/o Village - Khokasaha, P.S. - Bibhutipur, Dist. - Samastipur.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar

... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Mritunjay Kumar For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Damodar Prasad Tiwary ======================================================

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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER

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2 04-02-2026

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Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

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A.P.P. for the State.

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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 (Amendment) Act, 2022.

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Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 10.8 litres of liquor from a straw house. 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 is accessible to villagers at large and he came to be implicated at the instance of local person but then the name of the person who disclosed the name of the petitioner is not

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6779 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 2/3

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disclosed in the FIR which casts an aspersion on the case of the prosecution, when petitioner admittedly is a person with clean antecedent.

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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 before the learned Court below 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 Bibhutipur P.S. Case No.363/2025, 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

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6779 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 3/3

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antecedent, in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith.

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At this stage, the learned counsel for the petitioner based on instruction submits that petitioner undertakes to deposit an amount of Rs.1500/- with Advocates’ Association, Patna High Court within a period of two weeks from today.

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(Satyavrat Verma, J)

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amit/-

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Manish Kumar v. The State of Bihar

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