2025:JHHC:16288 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI Α.Β.Α. Νο. 2792 of 2025 1. Sarita Baranwal @ Sarita Barnwal @ Sarita Burnwal, W/o Naresh Kumar Baranwal, R/o 0333, Kali Chowk, Kalali mode gali me, Gadhpar, Nawada, Purani Bazar, Gondapur, Nawada, PO and PS: Gondapur, District Nawada, Bihar. 2. Hemant Kumar, S/o Naresh Kumar Baranwal, R/o 0333, Kali Chowk, Kalali mode gali me, Gadhpar, Nawada, Purani Bazar, Gondapur, Nawada, PO and PS Gondapur, District Nawada, Bihar. ....Petitioner(s) Versus The State of Jharkhand …..OP(s) CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Suraj Verma, Advocate For the State : Mr. S.K. Mahto, APP ------- 05/20.06.2025: This is an application filed by the petitioners praying for grant of anticipatory bail in terms of sections 482 and 484 of Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, as the petitioners have been allegedly implicated in connection with Karon P.S. Case No. 51 of 2024, for the offences punishable under sections 316(5)/ 319(2)/318(4)/ 338/336(3)/ 340(2)/61(2) of BNS, pending in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhupur. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for the State. 3. The learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners. 4. It is alleged that one Amit Kumar, a government employee, has misappropriated the government fund and transferred the same in the account of these petitioners who are his mother-in-law and brother-in-law. 5. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that immediately on receipt of notice from the Block Development Officer, these two petitioners have refunded the amount which is apparent from Annexure-3 and Annexure-5 to the bail application. 6. Since the petitioners have returned the money and they are not master mind of the entire occurrence, I am inclined to release the petitioners on anticipatory bail. 2025:JHHC:16288 7. Accordingly, the petitioners, above named, are directed to surrender before the court below within three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender/arrest the learned court below is directed to enlarge them on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand)each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhupur, in connection with Karon P.S. Case No. 51 of 2024, subject to the condition that one of the bailers should be close relative of the petitioners 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 further the petitioners shall appear before the Investigating Officer of the case on every fifteen days, till submission of charge sheet. (ANANDA SEN, J.) KNR/ -2-