( 2025:JHHC:30446 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5808 of 2025 Niraj Kumar @ Niraj Singh, aged about 46 years, son of Ram Ekbal Maharaj, resident of Purvi Panchsil Nagar, Khagdi Road, Near Saiynik Niwas, Takiyapar, P.O. and P.S. Digha, District-Patna, Bihar ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Sunil Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Jitendra Pandey, A.P.P. 02/ 26.09.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Chira Chas P.S. Case No. 104 of 2024, registered under sections 126(2)/127 (2)/115 (2)/117 (2)/109/351 (2)/3 (5) of BNS, 2023 of the I.P.C. pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bokaro. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that there is case and counter case between the parties and both sides have received injury. He further submits that petitioner has one criminal antecedent and one of the co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 5724 of 2025. On these grounds, he 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 has one criminal antecedent. 5. Considering that there is case and counter case between the parties, from whose blow injury has been received, is not clear. Further in anticipatory bail and regular bail if criminal antecedent is there that is one of the consideration of granting anticipatory bail or regular bail however that cannot be only criteria of allowing and rejecting anticipatory bail and regular ( 2025:JHHC:30446 ) bail. 6. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bokaro, in connection with Chira Chas P.S. Case No. 104 of 2024, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.26.09.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-