CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER

2 02-02-2026 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 offence punishable under Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act .

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in the order impugned it has been recorded that petitioner has antecedent of two cases when petitioner has antecedent of one case, which has been pleaded at Para-3 of the anticipatory bail application. It is thus submitted that the defect as pointed out by the office with regard to criminal antecedent be ignored.

is hereby ignored.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of one case under the Excise Act and allegation is of recovery of 4 litres of liquor from house of the petitioner. It is next submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and the house in question is a joint family property as such it cannot be alleged with certainty that it was petitioner, who had kept the liquor in the house or the liquor kept in the house was within his k