2025:JHHC:36453 --1-- A.B.A. No. 6856 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 6856 of 2025 ---- Manish Kumar Singh, aged about 40 years, son of Madan Prasad Singh, resident of village – Bhagat Tendua, PO – Kurhat Kataiya, PS – Hariharganj, District – Palamu .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Jitendra Shankar Singh, Advocate For the State :- Mrs. Sushma Aind, Advocate ---- 02/04.12.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as well as the learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Hariharganj P.S. Case No.154 of 2021, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 302 and 32 of Indian Penal Code pending in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Palamau at Daltonganj. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the FIR was lodged against four named accused persons namely Animesh Singh, Pankaj Singh, Chotu Singh and Dr. Anuj and the petitioner has been arrayed as an accused at a very belated stated i.e. after four years. He further submits that the statement of the petitioner has been recorded as a witness under Section 164 of Cr.P.C. wherein he has stated that at about 12:15 AM in the night 2025:JHHC:36453 --2-- A.B.A. No. 6856 of 2025 Chotu and Pankaj had called him on his mobile and asked him to come at Bolodar crossing and when he went there he saw Chotu and Pankaj in a blood stain on the shirt of Pankaj and thereafter they went to the hotel and Chotu and Pankaj forcibly got deleted the CCTV footage and thereafter asked him to drop them to their old home. He then submits that the said statement under Section 164 of Cr.P.C. was alleged to be confessional and on the basis of that the warrant has been issued upon the petitioner. He next submits that the petitioner will cooperate in the investigation. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer and submits that the name of the petitioner has come in the investigation. 5. Considering that the petitioner has given the statement under Section 164 of Cr.P.C. and that fact has been disclosed in paragraph No.7 of the present petition and the said statement is also annexed as Annexure-2 and the petitioner has made accused after four years, I am inclined to provide anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today, and in the event of his surrender/arrest, the petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief 2025:JHHC:36453 --3-- A.B.A. No. 6856 of 2025 Judicial Magistrate, Palamau at Daltonganj in connection with Hariharganj P.S. Case No.154 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated 04.12.2025 Sangam/