2025:JHHC:20849 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No.3899 of 2025 ------ Amit Kumar Singh, aged about 25 years, son of Pradip Prasad Singh, R/o Mayapur, P.O.- Gulab Jhari, P.S.- Naudiha Bazar, Distt- Palamu. … … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand. … … Opposite Party ------ CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Vikram Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Sardhu Mahto, APP ----- 03/ 29.07.2025 Heard the parties. 2. This anticipatory bail application under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been preferred by the petitioner apprehending his arrest, for offences under Sections 96, 351(2) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and u/s-18 of the POCSO Act. 3. The allegation in the F.I.R. filed at the instance of father of victim is that the accused person, namely, Ujwal Kumar Singh and this petitioner has enticed the minor daughter of the informant who is aged about 17 years. 4. After hearing the parties at length, I have gone through Paragraph No.28 is the statement of the victim girl record by the lady officer. 5. After going through the said statement, I find that she has stated that she was known to the other accused person, namely, Ujwal Kumar Singh as they were studying in the same school and Ujwal Kumar Singh was senior. They developed friendship, love and they wanted to marry each other. As the family of the victim was not agreeable for the said marriage, both of them fled. She categorically stated that there was no physical relationship established between them and she fled along with the Ujwal Kumar Singh as per her wish. In her statement recorded, she has not taken the name of this petitioner. 6. Learned A.P.P. representing the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail but cannot controvert the aforesaid 2025:JHHC:20849 2 statement of the girl. 7. Considering the aforesaid facts specially the statement of the girl, I am inclined to allow this application. 8. Accordingly, this Anticipatory Bail Application stands allowed. The petitioner, above named, is directed to surrender before the learned court below within four weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order and on the event of his surrender or arrest, he shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand), with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Exclusive Spl. Judge (POCSO), Palamu at Daltongaj, in connection with Naudiha Bazar P.S. Case No.41/2025, subject to the condition that one of the bailers should be a close relative of the petitioner and other should be a resident of State of Jharkhand, having sufficient landed property in his name or in the name of his ancestors in which he is having share and to that effect, he has to file an affidavit before the Trial Court indicating his share in the property. The petitioner should cooperate with the investigation and appear before the concerned Court once in every fifteen days, till submission of the final report. (ANANDA SEN, J.) Sandeep. Cp-3