2025:JHHC:22987 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI B.A. No. 6934 of 2025 --- Kartik Murmu, S/O:- Late Maso Murmu, age:-30 years, R/o:- Village:-Pagda, P.O. & P.S:- Bodam, Town:-Jamshedpur, Distt-East Singhbhum (Jharkhand) .....Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand --Opposite party --- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK ROSHAN --- For the Petitioner : Mr. Amit Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Lily Sahay, A.P.P --- 02/08.08.2025 Heard learned counsel for the Petitioner and learned A.P.P. 2. The Petitioner has approached this Court for grant of regular bail in connection with Bodam P.S. Case No. 19 of 2024, pending in the court of District and Additional Sessions Judge-III (I/c), East Singhbhum at Jamshedpur in S.T. No. 511 of 2024, registered for the offence under Sections 302, 201 and 34 of I.P.C 3. Learned counsel for the Petitioner submits that the Petitioner has falsely been implicated in this case. He further submits that the petitioner’s name has come on the basis of confessional statement of other co-accused and he is not named in the F.I.R. He further submits that similarly situated co-accused Kabir Hussain has been granted bail by Coordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 26.03.2025 passed in B.A. No. 657 of 2025 and the case of the petitioner stands on similar footing to that of co-accused and he is having no criminal antecedent and he is in custody since 06.07.2024; as such, the petitioner may be enlarged on bail. 4. Learned A.P.P. opposed the prayer for bail of the Petitioner. 5. Having regard to the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, coupled with the fact that similarly situated co-accused has been granted bail by Coordinate Bench of this Court, I am inclined to enlarge the 2025:JHHC:22987 2 Petitioner on bail. Accordingly, the above-named Petitioner is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand Only) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of District and Additional Sessions Judge-III (I/c), East Singhbhum at Jamshedpur, in connection with Bodam P.S. Case No. 19 of 2024, S.T. No. 511 of 2024. It is made clear that the Petitioner shall appear on each and every date before the learned trial court and he shall not threaten any witness and shall co-operate in trial and if any adverse report will come against this Petitioner, learned trial court shall be at liberty to cancel the bail of this Petitioner. (Deepak Roshan, J.) jk