IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.25052 of 2009 NIKU PATEL Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2/ 26/10/2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner apprehends arrest in a police case under Sections- 414 of I.P.C. and 47A and 47B of Excise Act. The submission is that the F.I.R. suspects him to be the owner of the vehicle in which the illicit liquor was being carried when the vehicle has subsequently been released in favour of its registered owner one Hari Kishore Prasad by the A.C.J.M., Bettiah on 23.7.2009. Learned counsel for the State points out that as per allegations the petitioner is stated to be dealing regularly in illicit liquor. In absence of any statement in the bail application or any material in the impugned order with regard to antecedents this Court directs that the petitioner above named shall surrender before the court below within four weeks when the court below shall call for his antecedent report. Only if the petitioner is found to have no antecedents shall the court below proceed to 2 accept his bail-bonds finally for a sum of Rs.20,000/- (twenty thousand) along with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran in Majhaulia P.S. Case No.78 of 2009, subject to the conditions laid down under Section-438(2) Cr.P.C. Till the date that the antecedent report of the petitioner is not received and the bail-bonds are not finally accepted, the petitioner shall be required to be physically present on each date so that if a report is finally submitted of his antecedents, he shall be required to surrender to custody then and there. KC ( Navin Sinha, J.)