IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI B.A. No. 9113 of 2024 ------- Banti Khan @ Ziyaul Haque @ Zia-ul-Haque, aged about 42 years, son of Nashir Khan, resident of Kamar Makdumi Road, P.O. Dhanbad, P.S. Bankmore, District Dhanbad, Jharkhand. …... …. Petitioner(s) Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. …. Opp. Party WITH B.A. No. 9059 of 2024 ------- Godwin Khan @ Soukat Khan @ Shaukat Khan, aged about 38 years, son of Nashir Khan, resident of Kamar Makdumi Road, P.O. Dhanbad, P.S. Bankmore, District Dhanbad, Jharkhand. …... …. Petitioner(s) Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. …. Opp. Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMBUJ NATH -------- For the Petitioner(s) : Md. Zaid Ahmed, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Shweta Singh, A.P. P. Mr. Sunil Kumar Dubey, A.P.P. -------- 05/ Dated 24.03.2025 Heard the parties. Both these bail applications arise out of the same police case and as such, these bail applications are being disposed of by this common order. The petitioners have been made accused in connection with Saraidhela P.S. Case No. 28 of 2023, corresponding to G.R. Case No.1369 of 2023, for the offences registered under Sections 302 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code and Section 27 of the Arms Act, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad. On 01.02.2023, the husband of the informant Upendra Singh was shot dead by four persons, out of whom, co-accused Pintu Singh and Sintu Singh were identified. The occurrence had taken for attaining supremacy between the gangs of Wasepur. The petitioner Godwin Khan @ Soukat Khan @ Shaukat Khan is named accused, whereas the name of the petitioner Banti Khan @ Ziyaul Haque @ Zia-ul-Haque has come in the confession of co- accused Pintu Singh and Sintu Singh. Criminal antecedent of the petitioners, earlier called for, has been received. Both the petitioners are accused in more than fifteen cases. It was submitted that some of the named accused persons had faced separate trial and they have been acquitted. -2- This is a case where the petitioners are involved in organized crime leading to the death of the deceased. Considering the nature of allegation, I am not inclined to release the petitioners, on bail. Accordingly, their prayer for bail is hereby rejected. (Ambuj Nath, J.) BS/-