CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER

2 23-12-2025 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 Sections 274 and 275 of the BNS as well as Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act .

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of five cases and allegation is of recovery of 786.666 litres of liquor from a wheat field. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot, as such, nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a field which does not belong to the petitioner and he came to be implicated at the instance of the Chawkidar.

It is further submitted that since petitioner carries criminal antecedent as such the police with a view to falsely implicate him got him implicated in the instant case through the Chawkidar. It is next submitted that if the Chawkidar was aware of the involvement of petitioner in the occurrence then why he did not inform the police prior to the institution of the instant FIR which al