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2025:JHHC:29370 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI
A.B.A. No. 4085 of 2025
---- Munesh Kumar aged about 43 years son of Shri Nageshwar Shaw resident of Mahavir Chowk Near Bombay Medical Upper Bazar Pyada Toli, PO GPO, Ranchi, PS Kotwali, District Ranchi, Jharkhand .... Petitioner -- Versus --
1.The State of Jharkhand
2.Victim
………… Opposite Parties
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CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI
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For the Petitioner
:- Mr. Abhay Kumar Mishra, Advocate
For the State
:- Mr. N.K. Ganjhu, Advocate
For the Informant
:- Mrs.Nazia Rashid,Advocate
---- 6/22.09.2025 Heard learned counsels for petitioner and for State.
2.
The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Argora PS Case No.104 of 2025, for offence registered under section 74/75(2) of BNS, 2023, pending in court of learned Judicial Magistrate- XIII, Ranchi.
3.
Learned counsel for petitioner submits that false allegations are made against the petitioner in this case of raising modesty of the informant. He further submits that it is an admitted position that the petitioner and the informant became friends through one App and the informant has come to the house of the petitioner on 12.05.2025 and in the drink something has been stirred therein and thereafter the petitioner became senseless and she has taken mobile phone of the petitioner and has transferred Rs.50,000/-, Rs.30,000/-, Rs.10,000/- and Rs.90,000/- respectively. He then submits that FIR has been lodged against the informant and thereafter the present FIR has been lodged against the petitioner wherein false allegations have been made. He then submits that by the earlier order, the case diary has been called for and the
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informant confessed her guilt in para no.11 of the case diary. He next submits that the money and certain articles taken by the informant has been retuned back to the petitioner. In this background he further submits that false allegations are made.
4.
Learned counsel for State as well as informant’s counsel jointly oppose prayer and submit that allegations are there of raising modesty of the informant.
5. In view of the above submission and looking to the contents of the FIR lodged by the petitioner dated 18.05.2025 the argument advanced by the learned counsel for the petitioner is fortified and thereafter the present FIR has been lodged alleging of raising the modesty of the informant by the petitioner and in paragraph 11 of the case diary the informant has confessed the guilt and even certain articles and the money has been returned back to the petitioner, and in the attending facts and circumstances of the present case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner.
6. Accordingly, petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before learned court within three weeks from today, and in event of his surrender/arrest, petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of like amount each, to satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate-XIII, Ranchi, in connection with Argora PS Case No.104 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023.
( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 22nd Sept., 2025 SI/