2025:JHHC:16970 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3142 of 2025 ------ Md. Kasim Ansari, @ Raju, S/o Late Yasin Ansari @ Md. Yasin, R/o Chhoti Masjid, L.C. Road, Sahibganj ..... Petitioner(s). Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party(s). ------ CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Pratiush Lala, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Ajay Kumar Pathak, A.P.P. …..... 05/25.06.2025: This anticipatory bail application under Section(s) 482 and 484 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, has been preferred by the petitioner apprehending his arrest for offences registered under Section(s) 85 of BNS, 2023 and Section 3/4 of Prevention of Witch (Daain) Practices Act, in connection with Nagar P.S. Case No.43 of 2025, pending in the Court of learned C.J.M., Sahibganj. 2. Heard the parties at length and had gone through the documents, annexed along with this application. 3. Opportunity was given to the State to oppose the bail, which the State availed and opposed. 4. The petitioner is the husband and there is allegation of assault by him on his wife. The victim was also driven out from the house. There is further allegation that after the third child was born, torture was meted upon the wife. 5. Considering the nature of allegation, this is not a fit case to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner, named above, rejected. (ANANDA SEN, J.) Anu/-C.P.-3