2025:JHHC:29479 --1-- A.B.A. No. 5658 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5658 of 2025 ---- 1. Pankaj Yadav @ Pankaj Kumar Yadav, aged about 32 years, S/o Ramnivas Yadav 2. Siya Ram Yadav, aged about 31 years, S/o Raj Kumar Yadav Both are r/o – village – Talbanna, PO – Sahibganj, PS – Sahibganj (Town), District – Sahibganj .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mr. Deepak Sahu, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Subodh Kumar Dubey, Advocate ---- 04/23.09.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners as well as the learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Sahibganj (M) P.S. Case No.98 of 2024, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 191(2), 191(3), 190, 195(1), 115(2), 117(2), 126(2), 127(2), 112(2), 121(1), 186, 132, 221, 224, 351(2), 352 and 61(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 pending in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sahibganj. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioner No.2 namely, Siya Ram Yadav, has been arrested and in view of that he is not pressing the anticipatory bail application of petitioner No.2. He further submits that he is pressing the anticipatory bail application of petitioner No.1. 2025:JHHC:29479 --2-- A.B.A. No. 5658 of 2025 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that earlier petitioners have moved before this Court in A.B.A. No. 2475 of 2025 which was dismissed as withdrawn by order dated 23.04.2025 and the present anticipatory bail application has been filed in view of the fact that two of the co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No.4415 of 2025 vide order dated 14.08.2025 and further three of co-accused persons whose A.B.A. No. 2475 of 2025 has also been dismissed as withdrawn, have already been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 5292 of 2025. He then submits that one Pappu Yadav was assaulted by the police for that protest was being made and F.I.R. is against 70-80 unknown persons and 21 named accused persons. He also submits that there is general and omnibus allegation against all the accused persons including the petitioners. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided anticipatory bail. 5. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that allegations are there of entering into the scuffle with the police and earlier anticipatory bail of the petitioners has been dismissed as withdrawn. 6. Considering that by order dated 23.04.2025 the anticipatory bail of the petitioners has been dismissed as withdrawn and subsequent thereto by order dated 14.08.2025 two of the accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 4415 of 2025 and by order dated 15.09.2025 the co-accused persons whose 2025:JHHC:29479 --3-- A.B.A. No. 5658 of 2025 anticipatory bail application has also been dismissed, have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 5292 of 2025 and in view of that in changed circumstances second anticipatory bail application can be maintained and further there is general and omnibus allegation against all the accused persons including the petitioners and F.I.R. is against 70-80 unknown persons and 21 named accused persons who were present at the spot. In the attending facts and circumstances of this case, I am inclined to provide anticipatory bail to the petitioner No.1 namely Pankaj Yadav @ Pankaj Kumar Yadav. 7. Accordingly, the petitioner No.1, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today, and in the event of his surrender/arrest, the petitioner No.1, above named, shall be released 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sahibganj in connection with Sahibganj (M) P.S. Case No.98 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated 23.09.2025 Sangam/