2025:JHHC:15707 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No.6787 of 2024 ------ Rakesh Singh Choudhary, S/o Umesh Singh Choudhary, R/o Village Dhobni, P.O. & P.S. Putki, District Dhanbad. … … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand. … … Opposite Party WITH A.B.A. No.6520 of 2024 ------ Gurjeet Singh @ Soni Sardar @ Gurjit Singh, S/o Kalyan Singh, R/o near Gurudwara, Nurunanakpura, Dhanbad, P.O. & P.S. Dhanbad, District Dhanbad. … … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand. … … Opposite Party WITH A.B.A. No.6855 of 2024 ------ Dipu Prasad, S/o Ramlakhan Prasad, R/o House No.272, Maine Balihari Kusunda, P.O. & P.S. Kenduadih, District Dhanbad. … … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand. … … Opposite Party WITH A.B.A. No.6932 of 2024 ------ Shankar Saw, S/o Muni Saw, R/o near Hari Mandir, Rajendra Nagar, Bhagabandh, P.O. + P.S. Bhagabandh, District Dhanbad. … … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand. … … Opposite Party ------ CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. R.S. Mazumdar, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Lakhan Chandra Roy, Advocate Mr. Pratiush Lala, Advocate For the State : Mr. Rakesh Kr. Sinha, A.P.P. Mrs. Mahua Palit, A.P.P. Mrs. Lily Sahay, A.P.P. Mr. Sanat Kumar Jha, A.P.P. ----- 04/ 16.06.2025 Heard the parties. 2. These anticipatory bail applications under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, has 2025:JHHC:15707 2 been preferred by the petitioners apprehending their arrest for offences registered under Sections 384, 306, 506/34 IPC and Section 4/5 of the Jharkhand Private Money Lending Prohibition Act, 2016. 3. The allegation against these petitioners is that they lend money to the informant and on the pretext of taking back the money from the informant, the petitioners indulged in deceiving the informant by forging signature, taking cooperative loan in the informant’s name and made him drown in debt. The informant drank phenyl after getting fed up with the petitioners. 4. Learned senior counsel representing the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in this case as the informant was in habit of taking loans from persons and different Financial Institutions. The informant also took loan from the petitioners and when he could not repay the said loans along with the interest, he consumed phenyl. 5. Learned A.P.P. representing the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. 6. Considering the fact the informant is a debtor, who took loan from the petitioners and when he could not repay the same, he drank phenyl, I am inclined to release these petitioners on anticipatory bail. 7. Accordingly, these Anticipatory Bail Applications stand 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 2025:JHHC:15707 3 Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each, with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad, in connection with Putki (Bhagabandh O.P.) P.S. Case No.83 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. The petitioners should appear once in fifteen days before the Investigating Officer till submission of the final report, failing which, it will be open to the Investigating Officer to file an appropriate application before the Court concerned for cancellation of bail. (ANANDA SEN, J.) Prashant. Cp-3