Bombay HC grants bail to man, orders community service: ‘stand with Don’t Drink and Drive banner at traffic junction’

“This is to make and dispersed consciousness and connection astir the ills of drinking and driving and its harmful effects,” Justice Jadhav noted.

Advocate Sachin Dhakephalkar, representing Nishank, argued that the lawsuit was registered based connected convoluted facts and but for Section 110 (attempting to perpetrate culpable homicide) of BNS, each different charges were bailable and invocation of superior charges was unfounded.

Justice Jadhav observed the applicant belonged to a bully household and that his “further incarceration is not warranted considering his aboriginal vocation prospects and the information that helium is young and highly educated.” Justice Jadhav besides noted that it was prima facie evident that helium was driving negligently successful an inebriated authorities and caused harm to nationalist property. The justice added it was evident that helium did not privation to get apprehended owed to his inebriated state, and truthful evaded it.

Granting bail to Nishank connected furnishing a idiosyncratic enslaved of Rs 1 lakh on with sureties of the aforesaid amount, the High Court directed him to execute assemblage service. The seat asked him to study the postulation serviceman manning the awesome astatine Worli Naka Junction wrong 2 days of his merchandise from prison.

Justice Jadhav besides directed the serviceman to depute the applicant astatine a peculiarly disposable well-lit spot connected the footpath facing the roadworthy betwixt 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday for 3 months. The applicant volition person to clasp a flex banner of 4×3 feet to beryllium prepared by him speechmaking “Don’t Drink and Drive” successful bold and large font on with the coloured graphic image.

The seat asked the postulation constabulary serviceman to record a compliance study astir the applicant’s assemblage work aft 3 months. The seat directed that the applicant’s driver’s licence beryllium deposited with the postulation serviceman and returned to him lone aft the compliance study of assemblage work is submitted.

On November 28, 2024 night, the applicant was driving a car connected the Western Express Highway successful suburban Andheri and did not halt his car astatine the cheque station adjacent Gokhale Bridge contempt the constabulary serviceman asking him to stop. He allegedly dashed done the barricades and continued driving, damaging 2 to 3 moving vehicles.

The constabulary took him for aesculapian introspection and recovered 42.5 per cent intoxicant successful his blood, aft which the transgression was registered and helium was taken into custody.