2025:JHHC:17853 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3356 of 2025 ----- Tuplal Prasad, son of Chhoti Mahto, resident of village Gaipahari (Kalhabad), P.O and P.S. Barkatha, District- Hazaribag. ..... Petitioner(s). Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party(s). ------ CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, Advocate. For the State : Mr. P.D. Agrawal, Spl. P.P. …..... 04/03.07.2025: 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) 224, 308(4), 352, 3(5) of the BNS, 2023, in connection with Barkatha P.S. Case No. 162/2024 pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Hazaribag. 2. Heard the parties at length and had gone through the documents, annexed along with this application. 3. There is allegation that four persons had gone to Saw Mill Operator and demanded money by way of extortion. It is alleged that phone call was made by this petitioner from Mobile No. 7739902846 to the mobile number of informant and he threatened him. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not those four persons, who had gone to demand rangdari. He submits that he had never made any call to the informant, as the phone did not belong to him. 5. Learned A.P.P submits that there are four other criminal cases pending against the petitioner. 6. As per the case diary, I find that that there is criminal history of the petitioner, as four cases, namely, Barkatha P.S. 28/2019 under the Arms Act, Barkatha P.S. Case No. 54/2019 under Section 414 IPC, Barkatha P.S. Case No. 83/2019 under Section 414 IPC and Section 33 of the Forest Act and one GF Case No. 271 of 2021 (two of these have been mentioned in this application), are pending against the petitioner. 7. In view of the aforesaid facts, this is not a fit case to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the same is dismissed. Anu/-C.P.-3 (ANANDA SEN, J.)