Mohammad Mumtaz v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.37013 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-324 Year-2025 Thana- BARH District- Patna ====================================================== Mohammad Mumtaz S/o Late Wasim Miyan R/o Kazichak, P.O. and P.S.- Barh, Patna, Barh, Bihar, 803213 ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Aditya Bhardwaj, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms. Pushpa Sinha.1, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 16-06-2026

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 316(2), 318(4) and 3(5) of the BNS, 2023.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that he had employed Md. Babar, son-in-law of the petitioner along with Md. Umar for tailoring work in his Arvind Store shop, further Babar and Umar took an advance of Rs. 2.5 Lakhs from him, but did not come to the shop after 03.05.2025 and fled away with cloths of the customer worth Rs. 1.5 Lakhs.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that from perusal of the allegation as alleged in the FIR, it would manifest that the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.37013 of 2026(2) dt.16-06-2026 2/2 informant alleges that he had employed Babar being son-in-law of the petitioner, it is thus submitted that if Babar and Umar committed wrong with the informant, for that the petitioner cannot be held responsible.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the anticipatory bail application of the petitioner.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and taking into consideration the fact that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Barh P.S. Case No. 324 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of BNSS.

7. Accordingly, the instant anticipatory bail application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T