( 2025:JHHC:27329 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5187 of 2025 Sheikh Affajuddin @ Sk. Afajuddin, aged about 34 years, son of Sheikh Israil, resident of Madanpur, P.O. -Madanpur, P.S. Nirsa, District-Dhanbad ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mrs. Neeharika Mazumdar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Shiv Shankar Kumar, A.P.P 02/ 09.09.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Chirkunda P.S. Case No. 268 of 2023, registered under section 379 of the I.P.C, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is not named in F.I.R and his name has come in the confessional statement of the co-accused. She submits that petitioner has one criminal antecedent. She submits that motorcycle in question has not been seized in the present case rather the same has been seized in another case. On these grounds, she submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that petitioner has criminal antecedent. 5. Considering that petitioner is having criminal antecedent, motorcycle in question has not been seized in the present case rather the same has been seized in another case and the name of the petitioner has come in the confessional statement of the co-accused, in view of that the petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within two weeks from today and the learned court shall release the petitioner on terms and ( 2025:JHHC:27329 ) conditions and sureties as learned court deems fit and proper. 6. This anticipatory bail application is disposed of. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-