( 2025:JHHC:21664 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI B.A. No. 4374 of 2025 ------- Alok Anand @ Chhotu @ Alok Mandal, aged about 19 years, son of Ravi Kumar Bharti, resident of Ramnagar, P.O. & P.S. Godda Nagar, District Godda. …... …. Petitioner(s) Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. …. Opp. Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMBUJ NATH -------- For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. R. S. Mazumdar, Sr. Advocate Mr. Ayush Deb, Advocate For the State : Mr. Manoj Kr. Mishra, A.P. P. -------- 03/ Dated 04.08.2025 I.A. No.7302 of 2025 Learned senior counsel for the petitioner seeks permission to withdraw this interlocutory application. Prayer is allowed. This interlocutory application is dismissed as withdrawn. B.A. No. 4374 of 2025 Heard the parties. The petitioner has been made accused in connection with Godda (Town) P.S. Case No. 173 of 2024, Special POCSO Case No.71 of 2024, for the offence under Sections 65, 70(2) and 96 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 6 of POCSO Act, pending in the court of learned Additional & Sessions Judge-I- cum-Special Judge (POCSO), Godda. Petitioner and co-accused persons are alleged to have gang raped the victim. The statement of the victim was recorded during trial, in which, she has not supported the factum of rape. She has also stated that she was made to identify the accused persons in jail by the police personnel. It was submitted that co-accused Ajit Mandal and co-accused Aman Kumar @ Boby @ Baldey have been granted bail by the Coordinate Bench of this Court. In view of the submission made above, I am inclined to release the petitioner, on bail. Accordingly, the petitioner, named above, is directed to 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 Additional & Sessions Judge-I-cum-Special Judge (POCSO), Godda, in connection with Godda (Town) P.S. Case No. 173 of 2024, Special POCSO Case No.71 of 2024. (Ambuj Nath, J.) BS/-