2025:JHHC:12137 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No.5051 of 2024 ------ 1. Gendo Rana 2. Pyari Rana @ Pyare Rana 3. Mahru Rana 4. Mantu Rana @ Mantu Kumar Rana 5. Girija Devi 6. Sargun Devi 7. Renu Devi … … Petitioners Versus 1. The State of Jharkhand. 2. Ramsewak Rana. … … Opposite Parties ------ CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Rohan Mazumdar, Advocate. For the State : Ms. Anuradha Sahay, A.P.P. ----- 07/ 24.04.2025 Heard the parties. 2. This anticipatory bail application under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, has been preferred by the petitioners apprehending their arrest for offence under Sections 147, 149, 452, 354, 379, 307, 341, 323, 504, 506, 427 IPC and Section 3/4 of the Prevention of Witch (Daain) Practices Act. 3. Learned A.P.P. representing the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. 4. Cognizance has already been taken in this case and notices have been issued to the petitioners to appear and the petitioners received the notice. 5. Admitted fact is that the case arises out of a complaint. In a complaint case, there is no question of investigation, even custodial interrogation. The only fact which the Court has to be 2025:JHHC:12137 2 assured of is whether the accused will face the trial or not or whether there is any chance of tampering with the evidence. 6. The impugned order does not suggest any of the aforesaid situation. Thus, in a complaint case, since there is no necessity of custodial interrogation, I am inclined to release these petitioners on anticipatory bail. 7. Accordingly, this Anticipatory Bail Application stands allowed. The petitioners, above named, are 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 their surrender or arrest, they 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Complaint Case No.933 of 2023, 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. (ANANDA SEN, J.) Prashant. Cp-3