2025:JHHC:14350 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 2928 of 2025 --------- Pappu Kumar @ Pappu Dhari S/o Late Baleshwar Dhari, aged 28 year, resident of village-Laxmi Colony, Near Shiv Mandir, P.O. & P.S. Jorapokhar, District-Dhanbad(Jharkhand.) ....Petitioner(s) Versus The State of Jharkhand ....Respondent(s) --------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK ROSHAN --------- For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Shekhar Prasad Sinha, Adv. For the Resp.-State : Mr. Saket Kumar, APP --------- 2/03.06.2025 The petitioner apprehending his arrest for the offence punishable under Sections 302/34 of I.P.C., has prayed for grant of anticipatory bail. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence whatsoever as alleged in the F.I.R. He further submits that the petitioner is not named in the F.I.R. and there is no criminal antecedent against the petitioner. He lastly submits that the petitioner has been made accused on the basis of confessional statement of Rahul Kumar and Gautam Kumar. 3. Learned A.P.P. opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner. 4. Having regard to the aforesaid facts and submissions and considering the materials available on record and also the fact that the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent; I am inclined to enlarge the petitioner on anticipatory bail. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the court below within four weeks from today, shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned J.M., 1st Class, Dhabad, in connection with Jorapokhar P.S. Case No. 175 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the ‘Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.’ If the Petitioner will not co-operate in the investigation/trial, the State would be free to take appropriate action available under law. (Deepak Roshan, J.) Amardeep/-