( 2025:JHHC:22018 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4135 of 2025 Sanjay Saw @ Sanjay Kumar, aged about 24 years, son of Ramadhin Saw, resident of village Pipra, P.O., P.S. Chouparan, District-Hazaribagh ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Lalan Kumar Singh, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Snehlika Bhagat, A.P.P ……….. 05/ 06.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Chauparan P.S. Case No. 454/2023, registered under sections 341, 323, 307, 504, 506, 379, 34 of the I.P.C., pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Hazaribagh. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that there is no direct and specific allegation against the petitioner and allegation if any is there that is against three co-accused persons, who have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 7527 of 2024 vide order dated 17.12.2024 by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court. He submits that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 6 of the petition. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits the allegations are there. 5. Considering that co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 7527 of 2024 vide order dated 17.12.2024 by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court and the case of the petitioner is on better footing, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the petitioner above named, is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Hazaribagh, in connection with Chauparan P.S. Case No. 454/2023, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-