KHUSHBU DEVI ALIAS PRABHA DEVI v. STATE OF JHARKHAND
A.B.A./4614/2025 · 2025-08-21
Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi
body2025
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2025:JHHC:24711
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI
A.B.A. No. 4614 of 2025
---- Khushbu Devi @ Prabha Devi age 30 years old wife of Pradip Sao, resident of Village Dhengura PO and PS Ranka District Garhwa
.... Petitioner -- Versus --
The State of Jharkhand
.... Opposite Party
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CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI
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For the Petitioner
:- Mr. Sabyasanchi, Advocate
For the State
:- Ms Sharda Kumari, Advocate
---- 2/21.08.2025 Heard learned counsels for petitioner and for State.
2.
The petitioner is apprehending their arrest in connection with Ranka P.S. Case No.80 of 2025, for offence registered under section 115(2), 109, 132, 121(1), 127(2), 352, 351(2), 351(3)/3(5) of BNS, pending in court of learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Garhwa.
3.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is labourer and he used to earn their livelihood by way of doing labour work. He submits that he was asked to pay Rs.5000/- for signing the muster-roll and in this background only the scuffle took place and he submits that there are case and counter case and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para no.11 and vide S.T. No.1/2008 in which she has been acquitted by the judgment dated 12.4.2010.
4. Learned State counsel opposes the prayer and submits that allegations are there.
5. Considering that the petitioner is the labourer and on refusal of payment of Rs.5000/- the scuffle took place and there are case and counter case and petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as aforesaid, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner.
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 her surrender/arrest, the petitioner, 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 Judicial Magistrate First Class, Garhwa, in connection with Ranka P.S. Case No.80 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023.
( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) SI/