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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4824 of 2025
1. Ajay Giri, aged about 48 years, son of Kunjbihari Giri, resident of Gorkatti, P.O. and P.S. Gorkatti, District-Aurangabad, Bihar
2. Shatrughan Singh, aged about 45 years, son of Dudheshwar Singh, resident of Gorkatti, P.O. and P.S. Gorkatti, District-Aurangabad, Bihar, ...... … Petitioners
Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party
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CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners
:Mr. J.N. Upadhyay, Advocate
Ms. Harshikha Kumari, Advocate
For the State : Mr. Prabhu Dayal Agrawal, Spl.P.P.
03/ 27.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State.
2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with MGM P.S. Case No. 205/2024, registered under sections 317(4), 287, 3 (5) of BNS and Section 7 of Essential Commodities Act, 1955, pending in the Court of learned S.D.J.M, Jamshedpur.
3.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are driver of the tanker and allegations are made of black marketing of L.P.G. Cylinder. He submits that allegation is not against the petitioners and co- accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 709 of
2025. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail.
4.
Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that illegally L.P.G. cylinder was being sold.
5.
Considering that in identical situation co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, the above named, petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned court within
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three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender / arrest, the petitioners shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M, Jamshedpur, in connection with MGM P.S. Case No. 205/2024, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023.
( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-