( 2025:JHHC:37910 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 7173 of 2025 Vinay Soni, aged about 33 years, son of Madhusudan Soni @ Maksudan Soni, resident of village Mahugawa, P.O. and P.S. Pandu, District-Palamau ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Ms. Neelam Kumari, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Bandana Sinha, A.P.P. 02/ 17.12.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in connection with Pandu P.S. Case No.53 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 80(2), 61(2), 3(5) of the BNS, pending in the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Palamau at Daltonganj. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that petitioner happens to be brother-in-law of the deceased and the father-in-law and married sister-in-law of the deceased have already been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 6008 of 2025. He further submits that there is no specific allegation of their being involved in any kind of crime, as alleged in the FIR. She then submits that in the postmortem report, it has come that there is no external injury found on the body of the deceased and it has also come that the cause of death is asphyxia due to antemortem hanging. On these grounds, she submits that the petitioner may kindly be enlarged on anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the case is also registered under Section 80(2) of the BNS, 2023 and in view of that, anticipatory bail may not be granted to the petitioner. 5. Considering that petitioner happens to be brother-in-law of the ( 2025:JHHC:37910 ) deceased, father-in-law and married sister-in-law of the deceased have already been granted anticipatory bail in the aforesaid A.B.A and in the postmortem report, no external injury has been found on the body of the deceased and the cause of death is asphyxia due to antemortem hanging and how this petitioner has instigated the deceased to take such step, is not apparent from the FIR and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. 6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of her arrest or surrender, she will be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Palamau at Daltonganj in connection with Pandu P.S. Case No.53 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Dt.17.12.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-