IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.488 of 2009 LAXMI KUMAR, son of Ram Baran Sinbgh, village Singhia Khurd, PS Mufassil, Dist. Samastipur .. Petitioner. Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 29.1.2009 Heard the counsel for the parties. The petitioner is an accused in a case under section 47(A) of the Excise Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is not responsible for the offences under section 47A of the Excise Act as the wine was recovered from an open field belonging to him. It is submitted that any one who is in the business of making Mahua wine could have placed the wine in the field. Considering the submissions aforesaid, the petitioner Laxmi Kumar is directed to be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender in Excise Case No. 86/2006 on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the C.J.M., Samastipur subject to the conditions laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. haque (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)