[2025:JHHC:30026] IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI B.A. No.8296 of 2025 ------ Rangnath Yadav @ Raghunath Yadav, aged about 41 years, son of late Sukhnandan Yadav @ Gajal Yadav, Resident of Village Piperdih, P.O. & P.S.-Kandi, Dist.-Garhwa .... .... …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .... .... …. Opposite Party ------ CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR CHOUDHARY ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Rohan Mazumdar, Advocate For the State : Mr. P. D. Agrawal, Spl.P.P ------ Order No.02 Dated- 25-09-2025 Heard the parties. The petitioner has been made accused in connection with Kandi P.S. Case No.09 of 2025 registered under Sections 74, 75 and 351(2) of the B.N.S., 2023 and under Sections 8, 12, 10 and 18 of POCSO Act and cognizance for the offences under Sections 74, 75 and 65,(b), 62, 333, 351(2)/3(5) of the B.N..S, 2023 under Sections 8, 12, 10 and 18 of the POCSO Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the allegation against the petitioner is that the petitioner outraged the modesty of the minor victim girl and committed aggravated sexual assault and sexual harassment upon her. It is next submitted that the allegation against the petitioner is false. It is further submitted that victim has already been examined in this case as P.W.-2 and in para-24 of her cross-examination, she has categorically stated that on being told by his father, this case has been instituted against the petitioner, because of intimacy of the petitioner with the mother of the informant and at the behest his father she has lodged the FIR as told by her father. It is then submitted that the petitioner undertakes that he will co- operate with the trial of the case and also undertake that he will not go or near the house of the informant in any manner during the pendency and he will not annoy or disturb the informant or the witnesses of the case. It is lastly submitted that the petitioner has been in custody since 01.02.2025 as is evident from para-16 of the instant bail application. Hence it is submitted that the petitioner be released on bail. Learned Spl. P.P. opposes the prayer for bail. Considering the facts of this case, the above-named petitioner is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Special Judge-POCSO Act-cum-Additional Sessions Judge-I-FTC (CAW), Garhwa, in connection with Kandi P.S. Case No.09 of 2025 with the condition that he will co-operate with the trial of the case and furnish his mobile number and photocopy of the Aadhar Card in the court below with an undertaking that he will not change his mobile number during the trial of the case and also undertake that he will not go or near the house of the informant in any manner during the pendency and he will not annoy or disturb the informant or the witnesses of the case. (Anil Kumar Choudhary, J.) 25.09.2025 Rohit/