( 2025:JHHC:28328 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5394 of 2025 1. Shekh Sarfaraz @ Aman Khan @ Shikh Sarfaraj, aged about 26 years, son of Sekh Manzoor @ Shik Majur, resident of Near Shiv Mandir, Chanch Pottery, Nirsa, P.O. & P.S. Nirsa, District Dhanbad 2. Shamshad Shekh @ Shekh Samsad, aged about 22 years, son of Shekh Salauddin, resident of Madanpur, Chirkunda, P.O. & P.S. Chirkunda, District Dhanbad 3. Shekh Zafrul @ Shekh Jafrul Ali, aged about 28 years, son of Shekh Nausad, resident of Madanpur, Chirkunda, P.O. & P.S. Chirkunda, District Dhanbad 4. Shekh Salauddin @ Salauddin Shekh, aged about 40 years, son of Shekh Naushad, R/o Madanpur, Chirkunda, P.O. & P.S. Chirkunda, District Dhanbad ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. Rohan Mazumdar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Pankaj Kr. Mishra, 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 Nirsa (MPL OP) P.S. Case No. 400/2025, registered under sections 318 (4), 336(3), 338, 340(2), 61(2) (a), 61 (2) (b) of the BNS, 2023 and sections 7/3 of Lottery Regulation Act. pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Dhanbad. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 14 of the petition. He submits that allegations are made against the apprehended co-accused persons of printing of fake lottery ticket and the name of the petitioners have come in the confessional statement. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that allegations are there against all the accused persons. 5. Considering that there is general and omnibus allegation against all ( 2025:JHHC:28328 ) the accused persons, petitioners have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 14 of the petition and allegations are made of printing of fake lottery ticket against Shekh Mashirul. 6. 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 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 Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Dhanbad, in connection with Nirsa (MPL OP) P.S. Case No. 400/2025, 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-