2025:JHHC:21628-DB IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI Cr. Appeal (DB) No. 702 of 2025 1. Shubham Kumar Singh 2. Birendra Kumar Yadav --- --- Appellants Versus The State of Jharkhand --- --- Respondent --- CORAM: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Rongon Mukhopadhyay Hon’ble Mr. Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava --- For the appellants : Mr. P.K. Mukhopadhyay, Adv. Mr. Raj Kumar Verma, Adv. For the State : Mr. Bhola Nath Ojha, Spl.P.P --- 02/04.08.2025 I.A. No.7467 of 2025 Mr. P.K. Mukhopadhyay, learned counsel for the appellants is permitted to make correction in the cause title of this interlocutory application, so far as the provision of law is concerned. This application has been preferred by the appellants for condoning a delay of 5 days in preferring the appeal. Having been satisfied with the reasons assigned in the instant application, the same is allowed and the delay of 5 days in filing the appeal is hereby condoned. I.A. No.7467 of 2025 stands disposed of. Cr. Appeal (DB) No. 702 of 2025 This appeal is directed against the order dated 29.03.2025 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-VII, Dhanbad in A.B.P. No. 899 of 2025 arising out of Putki P.S. Case No. 23 of 2024, whereby and whereunder, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the appellant has been rejected. Submission has been advanced by learned counsel for the appellants that though the appellants are named in the First Information Report but the allegations are general and omnibus in nature. It has been submitted that several co-accused persons similarly situated have been granted anticipatory bail by a Coordinate Bench of this Court in Cr. Appeal (DB) No.1096/2024, Cr. Appeal (DB) No.196/2025 and Cr. Appeal (DB) No.266/2025. 2 Mr. Bhola Nath Ojha, learned Spl.P.P though has opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the appellants, but has not disputed the aforesaid facts. Regard being had to the fact that the case of the appellants seems to be similarly situated to those co-accused persons who have been granted anticipatory bail, as noted above, we while setting aside the order dated 29.03.2025 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-VII, Dhanbad in A.B.P. No. 899 of 2025 arising out of Putki P.S. Case No. 23 of 2024, direct the appellants above named to surrender in the court below within four weeks and pray for bail, and in that event, they shall be released 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 learned Additional Sessions Judge-VII, Dhanbad in A.B.P. No. 899 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. This appeal stands allowed and disposed of. (Rongon Mukhopadhyay, J.) (Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, J.) Shamim/