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2025 DAILYLAW 23022 (JHR)

RAHUL KUMAR @ SONU v. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND

A.B.A./5169/2025 · 2025-09-09

Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi

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2025:JHHC:27306 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.5169 of 2025 Rahul Kumar (@Sonu, aged about 34 years, son of Birendra Singh, resident of 170/2/4, Housing Colony, Chhota Govindpur, P.O. Chhota Govindpur, P.S. Govindpur, Town Jamshedpur, District East Singhbhum, Jharkhand. …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Dilip Kr. Karmakar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Praful Jojo, A.P.P. ------ 4/09.09.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioner and learned APP appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Govindpur P.S. Case No.46 of 2025, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 108 & 3(5) of BNS, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Jamshedpur. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has extended friendly loan to the deceased and for return of the said loan, a cheque was issued by the deceased, which has been dishonoured and for that the petitioner has filed a complaint case being complaint Case No.182 of 2025 and then suicide has been made by the deceased. He submits that even in the suicide note, the signature of the deceased is not there and for the loan in question, an agreement has been entered into between the parties, which has been brought on record as Annexure -3. He submits that alleged occurrence is dated 22.06.2025, the deceased died on 26.06.2025 and 2025:JHHC:27306 2 the case has been lodged on 03.07.2025. He submits that apart from that there is no allegation against the petitioner. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the suicide note is there. 5. Considering that the loan has been extended by the petitioner, the agreement is on record, the cheque issued by the deceased has been dishonoured, for that the petitioner has lodged the complaint case and thereafter the suicide has been made, even in the suicide note, the signature of the deceased is not there and the alleged occurrence is dated 22.06.2025, the deceased died on 26.06.2025 and the case has been lodged on 03.07.2025, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner above named is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from the date of receipt of the order and on the event of his surrender / arrest, he shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty-Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount of each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Jamshedpur, in connection with Govindpur P.S. Case No.46 of 2025subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 7. This Anticipatory Bail Application is accordingly allowed and disposed of. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) R.Kumar