CR. MISC./6551/2026 of Chandan Kumar Vs The State of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.6551 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-43 Year-2025 Thana- Krishnabraham District- Buxar ====================================================== Chandan Kumar Son of Madan Mohan Lal Resident of village - Nehru Nagar, Police Station - Ara Nagar, District - Bhojpur. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Anil Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s: Ms.Shaheen Begum ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 04-02-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 398.52 litres of liquor from a car. 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 Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6551 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 2/3 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 fled from the place of occurrence. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner. 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. 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 Krishnabraham P.S. Case No. 43 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS. 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 Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6551 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 3/3 person with clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. 8. At this stage, the learned counsel for the petitioner based on instruction submits that petitioner undertakes to deposit an amount of Rs. 2,500/- with Advocates’ Association, Patna High Court within a period of two weeks from today. Sumit/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T