( 2025:JHHC:18120 ) 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 7320 of 2024 ------ Dipu Kumar Thakur, aged about 30 years, S/O Mahavir Thakur, R/O Ward No. 9, Chopdarbalia Panchayat, Kharati, Gosaibalia, PO & PS – Hazaribag, District – Hazaribag. … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … … Opposite Party ------ CORAM: SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Ms. Priyanka Agrawal, Advocate For the State : Mr. Anup Kumar Dey, APP ----- 06/ 07th July 2025 1. Heard the learned counsel for the parties. 2. This anticipatory bail application under Sections 482 and 484 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been preferred by the petitioner apprehending his arrest for offences registered under Sections 386 / 387 of the Indian Penal Code. 3. It is alleged that from Mob. No. 8210442814 a call was received by the informant. The caller demanded Rs. 5,00,000/- by way of extortion and threatened him that if the amount is not paid, he will face dire consequences and it will have adverse impact on the factory of the informant as there was a threat to destroy his factory. 4. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that there is no material against the petitioner. As petitioner is a barber, someone has misused his mobile number. 5. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State submits that call details of the informant’s mobile phone was traced and it was discovered that the call came from the number which belongs to this petitioner. It is admitted that the mobile bearing SIM No. 8210442814 is registered in the name of the petitioner. ( 2025:JHHC:18120 ) 2 6. Considering the aforesaid allegation, I am of the opinion that it is not a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail. 7. Accordingly, this anticipatory bail application of the petitioner is dismissed. (ANANDA SEN, J.) Aditi