2025:JHHC:16094 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No.7078 of 2024 ------ 1. Rakesh Soni @ Rakesh Kumar Sah, S/o Surendra Sah, R/o Village Gurigawan, Raepuram, P.O. Geyaspur, P.S. Geyaspur, District Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Presently residing at NCC Limited, House No.376, Khabar Mantra Road, Beside Shagun Banquet Hall, Near Science City, Chirundi, P.O. & P.S. Bariaty, District Ranchi. 2. Aniket Singh @ Aniket Singha Deb, S/o Anjan Kumar Sigha Deb, R/o Bamda, Jhargram, P.O. & P.S. Jhargram, District West Midnapore, West Bengal. Presently residing at NCC Limited, House No.376, Khabar Mantra Road, Beside Shagun Banquet Hall, Near Science City, Chirundi, P.O. & P.S. Bariatu, District Ranchi. … … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand. … … Opposite Party ------ CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Samir Kumar Lall, Advocate For the State : Mr. Sanat Kumar Jha, A.P.P. ----- 08/ 18.06.2025 Heard the parties. 2. This anticipatory bail application under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, has been preferred by the petitioners apprehending their arrest for offence under Section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act. 3. Learned A.P.P. representing the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. 4. The petitioners are the Contractors of Nagarjuna Construction Company. The said Company had got a tender for laying of water pipelines. Some part of the construction work was assigned to these petitioners. While the petitioners were digging the road, the underground electricity cables got damaged 2025:JHHC:16094 2 accidentally, resulting in this case under Section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act. 5. From the materials on record, I find that there was no intention of the petitioner to cause damage to the electricity cables and the said damage is prima facie an accident. Thus, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to this petitioners. 6. Accordingly, this Anticipatory Bail Application stands allowed. The petitioners, above named, are directed to surrender before the learned court below within four weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order and on the event of their surrender or arrest, they shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each, with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ranchi, in connection with Ormanjhi P.S. Case No.59 of 2024, subject to the condition that one of the bailers should be a close relative of the petitioners and other should be a resident of State of Jharkhand, having sufficient landed property in his name or in the name of his ancestors in which he is having share and to that effect, he has to file an affidavit before the Trial Court indicating his share in the property. (ANANDA SEN, J.) Prashant. Cp-3