2025:JHHC:12140 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 2506 of 2025 ----- Hasim Sheikh @ Hasim Raja @ Hashim Reza, S/o Barkat Sheikh @ Md. Barkat Ali, R/o Village- Uttar Piyarpur, P.O.- Piryarpur, P.S.- Radhanagar, District- Sahibganj, Jharkhand .... Petitioner(s). Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party(s). ------ CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Pawan Kumar Choudhary, Advocate For the State : Mr. Sudhir Kumar Mahto, A.P.P. …...... 02/ 24.04.2025: Heard, learned counsel for the parties. This is an application filed by the petitioners praying for grant of anticipatory bail in terms of Sections 482 and 484 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 apprehending his arrest for the offences under Sections 64(2), 62, 74 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) of 2003. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner. The girl of 16 years was molested at night by this petitioner, when she went out of her house to answer the natures call. The father of this petitioner and the Mukhiya of the village told the informant parties to compromise, but in panchayati the petitioner did not turn up. From the impugned order, I find that the girl has supported the allegation of molestation by this petitioner in her statement under Section 183 of BNSS. Considering the direct nature of allegation, the age of the girl, I find that this is not a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. As the same needs interrogation in custody of interrogation. Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner in connection with Radhanagar P.S. Case No.39 of 2025, pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate- 1st Class, Rajmahal, Sahibganj, stands rejected. R.S./ (ANANDA SEN, J.)