AJAY MANDAL ALIAS AJAY KUMAR MANDAL v. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND
A.B.A./6892/2025 · 2025-12-08
Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 6892 of 2025
Ajay Mandal @ Ajay Kumar Mandal, aged about 25 years, son of Ritlal Mondal, resident of Mahadaiya, P.O. Motileda, P.S. Begabad, District- Dhanbad, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner
Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party
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CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner
:Mr. Pran Pranay, Advocate For the State : Mr. Naveen Kr. Gaunjhu, A.P.P.
04/ 08.12.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State.
2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Giridih Cyber P.S. Case No. 18 of 2021, registered under sections 419/420 of I.P.C. and Section 66-D of I.T. Act, pending in the Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge-II-cum-Spl. Judge (Cyber Crime), Giridih.
3.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner used to take petrol from the petrol pump where the informant is working as manager and the petitioner has transferred the amount in the account of the petrol pump. He further submits that the manager of the petrol pump who is informant has lodged the case alleging therein that the bank account of the informant has been withheld by the bank due to suspicious transaction. He next submits that petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 15 of the petition. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail.
4.
Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that petitioner has transferred the amount in the account of informant.
5.
Considering that petitioner happens to be consumer of the said petrol pump and he used to take petrol from the said petrol pump and
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petitioner has transferred certain amount in the account of informant and allegation is made that said amount is suspicious and further the petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 15 of the petition.
6.
In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Additional Sessions Judge-II-cum-Spl. Judge (Cyber Crime), Giridih, in connection with Giridih Cyber P.S. Case No. 18 of 2021, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023.
Dt.08.12.2025
( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-