( 2025:JHHC:29665 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5700 of 2025 Geeta Devi, aged about 48 years, wife of Nanhak Yadav, resident of village Banka Jajlo, P.O. Jirhuliya, P.s. Hunterganj, District-Chatra ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mrs. Sadhna Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Sanat Kr. Jha, A.P.P. 03/ 24.09.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in connection with Hunterganj P.S. Case No. 16/2023, registered under sections 304-B and 34 of I.P.C. pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner happens to be mother-in-law of the deceased and false allegation is made against the petitioner. She further submits that how this petitioner is involved in the alleged crime, is not disclosed in the F.I.R. She then submits that husband and father-in-law of the deceased faced trial and they have been acquitted vide judgment dated 01.08.2024. On these grounds, she submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that petitioner is mother-in-law of the deceased. 5. Considering that husband and father-in-law of the deceased faced trial and they have been acquitted and the petitioner is mother-in-law and how she was involved in the alleged occurrence, is not clear. 6. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, ( 2025:JHHC:29665 ) petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of her surrender / arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Chatra, in connection with Hunterganj P.S. Case No. 16/2023, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.24.09.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-