2025:JHHC:14792 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 2740 of 2025 Arvind Kumar Singh, S/o Shankar Dayal Singh, R/o village Matigarh PO and PS Baghmara, District Dhanbad, presently residing at Flat No. 101, Nirmala Kunj, Veer Kunwar Singh Nagar, PO- ISM , PS Saraidhela, District Dhanbad. ….. Petitioner (s) Versus 1.The State of Jharkhand 2. Smt. Sugapati Devi, W/o Sri Gupteshwar Prasad, R/o village Gandhi Nagar, Ward No. 33, PO and PS Aurangabad, District Aurangabad (Bihar). Presently residing at Sanyukt Tower Apartment, D/2, Chandra Vihar Colony, Bartand, PO and PS Dhanbad, District Dhanbad. ….OP(s). CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the petitioner(s) : Mr. S.K. Laik, Advocate For the State : Ms. Bandana Sinha, PP ----- 02/09.06.2025: This is an application filed by the petitioner praying for grant of anticipatory bail in terms of sections 482 and 484 of Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, as the petitioner has been allegedly implicated in connection with Govindpur PS Case No.270 of 2023, for the offences punishable under sections 406/ 420/417/467/471/34 of the Indian Penal Code, pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class at Dhanbad. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel for the State. 3. The learned counsel for the State has opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner. 4. The allegation against the petitioner is that he being the power of attorney holder of Fatima Bibi, Khairun Bibi and Marium Bibi, executed registered deed in respect of the land in question on 06.11.2018 in favour of the purchaser. It is alleged that informant/purchaser went over the land and found that the same land in possession of one Koyla Khanan Keshetra Pradhikar Karmachari, Pradhikari of Sahakari Grih Nirman Sahyog Samity Ltd. Dhanbad and also the said organization has filed an application under section 87 of the CNT Act before the Survey Authority against the ancestors of recorded raiyat for making necessary correction in the records. 5. After hearing the parties, I find that the dispute is primarily civil in 2025:JHHC:14792 nature. The petitioner is the power of attorney holder of Fatima Bibi, Khairun Bibi and Marium Bibi and there is no dispute that they are the descendants of the recorded tenants. The dispute is between complainant and the Koyla Khanan Keshetra Pradhikar Karmachari, Pradhikari of Sahakari Grih Nirman Sahyog Samity Ltd. Dhanbad in respect of ownership of land. The allegation against the petitioner is that he being the power of attorney holder executed sale deed. 6. Considering the nature of allegations, I am inclined to release the petitioner on anticipatory bail. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, is directed to surrender before the court below within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender/arrest the learned court below is directed to enlarge him on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class at Dhanbad, in connection with in connection with Govindpur PS Case No.270 of 2023, subject to the condition that one of the bailers should be close relative of the petitioner and other should be a resident of State of Jharkhand, having sufficient landed property in his/ her name or in the name of his/her ancestors in which he/she is having share and to that effect, he/she has to file an affidavit before the learned trial court indicating his /her share in the property. (ANANDA SEN, J. ) KNR/