CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SOURENDRA PANDEY ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD)

5 12-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned AC to GA-8 for the State of Bihar.

2. This case was taken up for consideration yesterday.

This Court passed the following order:-

“I.A. No. 1 of 2025 The petitioner has filed an interlocutory application seeking setting aside of the order dated 27.12.2024 passed by Sub- Divisional Magistrate, Bhabhua at Kaimur in Excise Confiscation Case No. 687 of 2024. Copy of the same has already been filed online.

2. Office to register it.

3. Having regard to the formal kind of prayer made in the interlocutory application, we allow I.A. No. 1 of 2025. Let the averments made therein and the order of confiscation enclosed therewith be treated as part and parcel of the writ application.

4. A counter affidavit has been filed on behalf of Respondent No. 3 i.e. the District Magistrate, Kaimur at Bhabhua. Apart from pleading the other things, Respondent No. 3 has brought to the notice of this Court that this petitioner is a habitual offender. He is accused in Excise P.S. Case No. 348 of 20