2025:JHHC:29485 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.5416 of 2025 Umesh Chouhan, aged about 43 years, S/o Late Basudeo Noniya, R/o Village Pandwa, Rajhara, P.o. & P.S. Pandwa, District – Palamau, Jharkand …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Sheo Kumar Singh, Advocate Mr. Raj Nandan Chatterjee, Advocate For the State : Mr. Fahad Allam, Advocate ------ 2/23.09.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioner and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest for the alleged offences registered under Sections 406, 420 of IPC, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Palamau, in connection with Pandwa P.S. Case No.53 of 2024. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has taken a sum of Rs.4,45,417/- for a land to be handed over in the lease terms and condition, however that has not been metalized and later on, the petitioner has returned the said amount and buttress to this argument, he refers to Annexure-2 and submits that the Deputy Director of M/s. Fairmine Carbons Pvt. Ltd. has informed to the Officer In-charge of Pandwa Police Station about the deposit of the amount by the petitioner. He further submits that the amount has been returned and the matter has been settled between the parties. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer but not disputing the Annexure -2, which is the information made by the 2025:JHHC:29485 2 Deputy Director of the M/s. Fireman Carbons Pvt. Ltd. 5. In view of the above and considering that amount has been returned in the light of Annexure-2, which has been accepted by the Deputy Director of the said company and he has communicated the same to the I.O., 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Palamau, in connection with Pandwa P.S. Case No.53 of 2024, subject 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.) 23.09.2025 R.Kumar