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2025 DAILYLAW 21244 (JHR)

AJAY KUMAR PANCHAM v. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND

A.B.A./4067/2025 · 2025-08-04

Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi

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( 2025:JHHC:21600 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4067 of 2025 Ajay Kumar Pancham, aged about 36 years, son of late Upendra Singh, resident of Yarana Mansion, Plot No. 1, Road No. 6, Bagbera Colony, P.O. and P.S. Bagbera, District-East Singhbhum (Jharkhand) ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Anurag Kashyap, Advocate : Mr. Pankaj Kumar, Advocate Mrs. Supriya Dayal, Advocate For the State : Md. Shahabuddin, Advocate ------ 04/ 04.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and, learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Kadma P.S. Case No. 98 of 2023, registered under sections 409, 420, 120B/34 of the I.P.C., pending in the Court of learned S.D.J.M., East Singhbhum at Jamshedpur. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that allegation is that the petitioner has taken loan and has not refunded to the bank. He further submits that co-accused persons have already been granted anticipatory bail by the Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in A.B.A. No. 10220/2023 vide order dated 02.09.2024, A.B.A. No. 7218 of 2024 vide order dated 27.11.2024 and in A.B.A No. 7652 of 2024 vide order dated 01.07.2025. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State submits that the learned court has rejected the prayer of the petitioner on the ground that there is no apprehension of arrest of the petitioner and the petitioner has replied notice under section 41-A of the Cr.P.C. He further submits that the petitioner has co-operated in the investigation and he has appeared before the Investigating Officer. He submits that chargesheet has been submitted. 5. Considering that co-accused persons have already been granted anticipatory bail by the Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in A.B.A. No. 10220/2023 vide order dated 02.09.2024, A.B.A. No. 7218 of 2024 vide order dated 27.11.2024 and in A.B.A No. 7652 of 2024 vide order dated 01.07.2025, the petitioner has co- operated in the investigation and chargesheet has been submitted, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the petitioner above named, is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail, ( 2025:JHHC:21600 ) on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M, East Singhbhum at Jamshedpur, in connection with Kadma P.S. Case No. 98 of 2023, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-