( 2025:JHHC:10398 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI B.A. No. 2681 of 2025 ------- Abdul Motalik Sk. @ Abdul Motalim Sk. @ Abdul Mutalim, aged about 21 years, son of Late Gulab Shekh, resident of Kachwa Kol, P.O. & P.S. Rajmahal, District Sahibganj, Jharkhand. …... …. Petitioner(s) Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. …. Opp. Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMBUJ NATH -------- For the Petitioner(s) : Md. Yasir Arafat, Advocate For the State : Mr. P. D. Agrawal, Spl.P. P. -------- 02/ Dated 04.04.2025 Heard the parties. The petitioner has been made accused in connection with Gopikandar P.S. Case No. 25 of 2023, corresponding to G.R. Case No.760 of 2023, for the offence registered under Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code, thereafter charge sheet has been submitted under Sections 379 & 411 of the Indian Penal Code, pending in the court of Sri Walter Bhengra, learned J.M., 1st class, Dumka. On 14.07.2023, motorcycle of the informant parked outside his house was stolen by unknown persons. It appears that during the course of investigation, the stolen motorcycle was recovered on the pointing out of this petitioner. Mr. P. D. Agrawal, learned Spl.P.P on behalf of the State has opposed the prayer for bail and submitted that petitioner is an accused in as many as eight cases of similar nature. Considering the criminal antecedent of the petitioner, I am not inclined to release the petitioner, on bail. Accordingly, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is hereby rejected. (Ambuj Nath, J.) BS/-