[2025:JHHC:23756] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4433 of 2025 Isteyak Ansari @ Badshah @ Ishteyak Ansari, aged about 21 years, S/o Guljar Ansari, Resident of Sursha, P.O. and P.S.-Mandar, District-Ranchi (Jharkhand). ..... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Rajesh Kumar Singh, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Suraj Deo Munda, A.P.P. ------ 03/ 14.08.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Bharno P.S. Case No. 65 of 2024, registered for the alleged offence under Section 303(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, pending in the Court of learned Additional Judicial Magistrate, Gumla. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that there is general and omnibus allegation of theft of electric wire from the electric pole and in identical situation the other co-accused have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 2881 of 2025 and A.B.A. No. 4257 of 2025. He submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.12 of the petition. 4. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that the allegation is there of stealing the electric wire from the electric pole. 5. Considering that in the identical situation, other co-accused have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 2881 of 2025 and A.B.A. No. 4257 of 2025 and the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para-12 of the petition, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. [2025:JHHC:23756] -2- 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, named above, is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner, named above, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty-five thousand), with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Additional Judicial Magistrate, Gumla, in connection with Bharno P.S. Case No. 65 of 2024, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Amitesh/-