IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.42052 of 2010 PARAS CHAUDHARY & ANR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 21.12.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners. The petitioners pray for bail in a case under Sections 47 (a) of the Bihar Excise Act and 272 and 273 of the Indian Penal Code. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that total recovery of foreign liquor and country liquor is to the extent of 23.800 litres. It is also submitted that the petitioners have not been implicated in any other criminal case earlier. It is further submitted that the complaint was made against only petitioner No.1 and petitioner No.2 was arrested since he was also found in the house. Learned counsel further states that the petitioners are in custody for nearly three months since 24.9.2010. It is also alleged that the petitioners’ signatures have been taken forcibly on a plain and blank paper which has been converted subsequently into the seizure list and, as a matter of fact, nothing has been seized from the conscious possession of the petitioners. In the facts and circumstances of the case the petitioner No.1, Paras Chaudhary and - 2 - petitioner No.2, Prabhat Chaudhary, are directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.15,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each in Patepur P.S. Case No.130/2010 to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hajipur at Vaishali. VPS ( Ramesh Kumar Datta, J. )