2025:JHHC:23005 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI B.A No. 6968 of 2025 Md. Kalim, aged about 55 years, S/o Late Md. Kazim @ Kazim Miyan, R/o Village Sultana, Hazaribagh, PO-Hazaribagh, PS-Katkamdag, District-Hazaribagh (Jharkhand) 825301 … Petitioner(s) Versus The State of Jharkhand … … Opposite Party(s) CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK ROSHAN For the Petitioner(s) :Mr. Rahul Ranjan, Advocate For the State :Ms. Mohua Palit, APP -------- Order No. 02 /Dated: 8th August 2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2. The instant bail application has been preferred by the petitioner for grant of regular bail in connection with Sessions Trial No. 129 of 2020 arising out of Katkamdag PS Case No. 24 of 2020, registered for the offence under Section 302 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is completely innocent and has been falsely implicated in this case due to ulterior motive. He submits that the informant has completely omitted the name of the petitioner from the list of persons who allegedly held the deceased, thereby contradicting his own FIR and negating the specific allegation against the petitioner. It is further submitted that PW3 who is the wife of the deceased and allegedly a key eyewitness as per the FIR, has been declared hostile by the prosecution. Learned counsel submits that the co-accused namely, Md. Faisal, has been granted bail on 14.07.2021 in BA No. 6045 of 2021 by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court. He further submits that petitioner does not have criminal antecedent and he is in custody since 30.04.2025 as 2025:JHHC:23005 2 such, the petitioner may be enlarged on bail. 4. Learned APP opposes the prayer for bail. 5. Having regard to the aforesaid facts and circumstances that co-accused has been granted bail by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court coupled with the fact that petitioner does not have criminal antecedent and he is in custody since 30.04.2025, I am inclined to enlarge the petitioner on bail and accordingly, the petitioner, above-named, is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned J.M. 1st Class, Hazaribagh in connection with Sessions Trial No. 129 of 2020 arising out of Katkamdag PS Case No. 24 of 2020. 6. 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 cooperate 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.) Amit