2025:JHHC:19472-DB IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI Cr. Appeal (DB) No. 744 of 2025 ------- Bablu Prasad …... …. Appellant(s) Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. …. Respondent -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RONGON MUKHOPADHYAY HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMBUJ NATH -------- For the Appellant(s) : Ms. Rashmi Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. M. K. Mishra, A.P.P -------- 02/ Dated 17.07.2025 I.A. No.8370 of 2025 Heard the parties. The instant interlocutory application has been preferred by the appellant for condoning a delay of 49 days in filing the present appeal. Having been satisfied with the reasons assigned in the application, the delay of 49 days which had occurred in filing this appeal is condoned. The aforesaid I.A. stands allowed and disposed of. Cr. Appeal (DB) No. 744 of 2025 Heard Ms. Rashmi Kumar, learned counsel for the appellant and Mr. M. K. Mishra, learned A.P.P on behalf of the State. This appeal is directed against the order dated 08.04.2025 passed in B.P. Case No.159 of 2025 in connection with Jamua P.S. Case No.38 of 2025, passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge-IX, Giridih, whereby and whereunder, the prayer for bail of the appellant has been rejected. It has been alleged that the accused persons were involved in trafficking of women of the rural areas, who are working in Banvasi Vikas Ashram Sanstha Giridih to Rajasthan for the purposes of prostitution. Submission has been advanced by the learned counsel for the appellant that one Bhuti Devi who was said to have been trafficked to Jaipur was recovered and she disclosed the name of one Sushila Devi who is said to have sold her. It has also been submitted that one of the co-accused similarly situated namely Binod Prasad Yadav @ Binod Kumar Yadav has been granted bail by a coordinate Bench of this Court in Cr. Appeal (DB) No.551/2025. It has further been submitted that appellant is in custody since 27.02.2025. Learned A.P.P has opposed the prayer for bail of the appellant but has not disputed the aforesaid facts. -2- Regard being had to the above, we, while setting aside the order dated 08.04.2025 passed in B.P. Case No.159 of 2025, arising out of Jamua P.S. Case No.38 of 2025, passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge-IX, Giridih, direct that the appellant, above named, be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Rs. Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of Ms. Sushila Hansda, learned Judicial Magistrate, Giridih, in connection with Jamua P.S. Case No.38 of 2025. This appeal is allowed. (Rongon Mukhopadhyay, J.) (Ambuj Nath, J.) BS-Rashmi/-