2025:JHHC:15653-DB IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI Cr. Appeal (DB) No. 1274 of 2023 ------- Sariful Sheikh @ Sariful Islam …... …. Appellant(s) Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. …. Respondent -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RONGON MUKHOPADHYAY HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMBUJ NATH -------- For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Mahesh Tewari, Advocate Md. Yasir Arafat, Advocate For the State : Mr. Rajneesh Vardhan, A.P.P For the Informant : Mr. Gautam Kumar, Advocate Ms. Savita Kumari, Advocate Mr. Ashutosh Kr. Sinha, Advocate -------- 11/ Dated 16.06.2025 Heard Mr. Mahesh Tewari, learned counsel for the appellant and Mr. Rajneesh Vardhan, learned A.P.P on behalf of the State, assisted by Mr.Gautam Kumar, learned counsel for the informant. This appeal is directed against the order dated 14.07.2023 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-II, Pakur in B.P. No.114/2023, arising out of Pakur (Mufassil) P.S. Case No.252/2021, whereby and whereunder, the prayer for bail of the appellant has been rejected. It has been submitted by the learned counsel for the appellant that the allegations against the appellant are general and omnibus in nature. It has further been submitted that so far as the throwing of bomb on the car and the subsequent assault is concerned, several accused persons have been specified to have indulged in such assault, but so far as the present appellant is concerned merely his name has been inserted as one of the persons present there. Learned counsel further submits that the appellant is in custody for more than three years. Learned counsel for the informant has opposed the prayer for bail of the informant and has submitted that the appeals of the similarly situated co-accused have already been rejected by this Court in Criminal Appeal (D.B.) No. 1143 of 2022 & Criminal Appeal (D.B.) No. 1166 of 2022. It appears that on account of the assault committed by all the accused persons, 16 injuries were found on the person of the deceased. It further appears that the appellant alongwith others had facilitated the commission of murder of Kausar Ali and the case of the appellant seems to be similarly situated to those persons whose prayer for bail has been rejected earlier by this Court. Regard being had to the above, we are not inclined to interfere with the impugned order dated 14.07.2023 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-II, Pakur in B.P. No.114/2023, arising out of Pakur (Mufassil) P.S. Case No.252/2021. Accordingly, this appeal is dismissed. (Rongon Mukhopadhyay, J.) (Ambuj Nath, J.) BS-Saurav/-