2025:JHHC:12777 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No.5529 of 2024 ------ 1. Lal Prasad Gorai 2. Yasoda Devi … … Petitioners Versus 1. The State of Jharkhand. 2. Victim … … Opposite Parties ------ CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Sidharth Sudhanshu, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Mohua Palit, A.P.P. Mr. Randhir Kumar Saw, Advocate Mr. Ranjeet Kumar Saw, Advocate ----- 06/ 29.04.2025 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 offences under Sections 498A, 341, 342, 307, 323, 376, 354 and 34 IPC and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. 3. Learned A.P.P. representing the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. 4. The petitioners are the father in law and mother in law of the victim. 5. During the course of argument, it has been submitted by the parties that the charge-sheet has already been submitted against these petitioners and the Court has also taken cognizance. It has been specifically stated that since the petitioners cooperated with the investigation, the charge sheet was submitted against them and the petitioners were not shown as absconder at any point 2025:JHHC:12777 2 of time. 6. Since the cognizance has already been taken and charge sheet has already been submitted, there is no scope of investigation. Taking the petitioners into custody will amount to pretrial custody. Thus, it is a fit case to enlarge the petitioners on 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.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) each, with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad, in connection with Dhanbad P.S. Case No.280 of 2024, subject to the condition that one of the bailers should be a close relative of the petitioners 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