Mahmud AlamversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.16582 of 2026
                   Arising Out of PS. Case No.-88 Year-2025 Thana- SAHEBGANJ District- Muzaffarpur
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                 Mahmud Alam S/O Mainuddin Ansari Resident of village- Madhubani, P.S.-
                 Sahebganj, Dist.- Muzaffarpur.

                                                                                 ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                      Versus
                 The State of Bihar

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :      Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :      Mr. Shantanu Kumar, APP
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA
                                       ORAL ORDER

4   24-06-2026                           Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and

                   learned A.P.P. for the State.

                                     2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case

                   registered under Sections 317(4), 318(4), 338, 336(3) and

                   340(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

                                   3. As per the prosecution case, the petitioner is

                   alleged to have kept the stolen Scorpio vehicles in his scrap

                   shop with fake registration number plates.

                                   4.    Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the

                   petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has falsely

                   been implicated in the present case due to ulterior motive.

                   Further submission is that the recovered Scorpio vehicles are not

                   stolen property and someone has changed the registration

                   number plates of the vehicles in the night and the petitioner was
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                      implicated in the present case. There is no F.I.R. for any theft of

                      the vehicles in question. There is no allegation that the vehicles

                      in question were used for any crime. Petitioner is only doing the

                      business of scrap shop. Petitioner has got no criminal antecedent

                      and he undertakes to cooperate in the investigation and trial.

                                    5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposed the prayer for

                      bail.

                                    6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of

                      the case, submissions of learned counsel for the parties and

                      clean antecedent of the petitioner, let the above named petitioner

                      be released on bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the

                      learned court below within a period of six weeks from today, on

                      furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with

                      two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of

                      learned Judicial Magistrate-I, Muzaffarpur West in connection

                      with Sahebganj P.S. Case No. 88 of 2025, subject to the

                      conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya

                      Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita.



                                              (Sunil Dutta Mishra, J)
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