Anticipatory bail granted considering the accused's clean antecedents and circumstances surrounding the allegations.

CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER

2 28-01-2026 Heard Mr. Ranjit Kumar Thakur, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and Mr. Umeshanand Pandit, learned APP appearing on behalf of the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 18 and 19 of the N.D.P.S. Act .

3. As per prosecution case, on raid, 127 plants of opium and 767 plants of doda were found on the land of this petitioner.

4. It is submitted by learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner that petitioner is quite innocent and has committed no offence. Petitioner is himself a victim of circumstances. As a matter of fact, petitioner is a teacher in a government school at Muzaffarpur and presently, he is residing in Muzaffarpur with his family and has got no concern with the alleged cultivation over the land in question. It is further submitted that the land in secretion is in joint possession of the family of the petitioner and at present, the land is being cultivated by Shobhit Singh, who is own brother of this petitioner and simply because petitioner is co-owner of the land, he has falsely been implicated in this case. Petitioner claims clean antecedents.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, general and omnibus nature of accusation and clean antecedents of the petitioner, the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner is allowed.

7. Accordingly, in the event of arrest/surrender within a period of eight weeks from today, let the above named petitioner be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Vaishali P.S. Case No. 86 of 2022, subject to condition as laid down under Section

482(2) of the B.N.S.S. .