CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER

2 23-12-2025 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act .

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner no. 1 has antecedent of one case and petitioner no. 2 is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of

80 litres of liquor from Bathan of petitioners.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners were not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from their conscious possession and even the alleged recovery is from a place which is outside the house and is accessible to public at large. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own premises for committing an occurrence and thus would create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated. It is also submitted that it appears that someone inimical to the petitioners planted meagre amount of liquor in order to implicate the petitioners and their family members. It is further submitted that they came to be implicated bas