2025:JHHC:23079 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4207 of 2025 ---- 1.Manoj Rajbanshi @ Manoj Kumar aged about 55 years son of Gulab Rajbanshi 2.Anita Devi, aged about 50 years wife of Manoj Rajbanshi, Both are residents of Village Janpur, PO Saphi, PS Domchandh, District Koderma .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Randhir Kumar, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Sanjay Kumar Srivastava, Advocate ---- 2/11.08.2025 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned counsel for the respondent State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Domchanch P.S. Case No.77 of 2024, for the offence registered under sections 9, 10 of Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are happened to be father and mother respectively of the child. He submits that the relatives have already been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No.3849 of 2025 and the allegations are made of solemnizing the marriage of the child who is aged about 16 years. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the petitioners are father and mother of the child respectively. 5. Considering that the co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail as aforesaid, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today, and in the event of their surrender/arrest, the petitioners, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each, with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma, in connection with Domchanch P.S. Case No.77 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS). ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) SI/