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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5392 of 2025
1. Vishal Mahto, aged about 26 years, son of Laxman Mahto, resident of village 345, Shah Colony, near Durga Mandir Patratu Thermal Power Station, Patratu, P.O. and P.S. Patratu, District-Ramgarh, Jharkhand
2. Mohit Kumar Aged about 25 years, son of Ashok Saw, resident of village Upar Tola Patratu Thermal Power Station, Patratu, P.O. and P.S. Patratu, District-Ramgarh (Jharkhand). ...... … Petitioners
Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party
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CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners
:Mr. K.S. Nanda, Advocate For the State : Mr. Suraj Deo Munda, A.P.P.
04/ 16.09.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State.
2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Ratu P.S. Case No. 59/2020, registered under sections 392, 34 of I.P.C. pending in the Court of learned J.M.-cum-A.M.-V, Ranchi.
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Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the informant had parked his loaded vehicle at Tilta Chowk due to shortage of fuel. It has been alleged that some miscreants had assaulted him and fled away with the loaded vehicle.
4. The petitioners seem to have been implicated on the confession of co-accused Subham Kumar Soni. There is no other material indicating the complicity of the petitioners in the commission of such offence. The petitioners have no criminal antecedent as stated in this application. The co- accused has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No.6225 of 2020.
5. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, the above named, petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender / arrest, the
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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 J.M.-cum-A.M.-V, Ranchi, in connection with Ratu P.S. Case No. 59/2020, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023.
Dt.16.09.2025
( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-