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2025 DAILYLAW 32796 (JHR)

PALTAN MURMU v. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND

A.B.A./6901/2025 · 2025-12-08

Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi

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2025:JHHC:36715 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.6901 of 2025 Paltan Murmu, aged about 38 years, son of Harihar Murmu, resident of Village Charpi, P.O. Jagdishpur, P.S. Madhupur, District Deoghar, Jharkhand. …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Arvind Kr. Choudhary, Advocate For the State : Mr. Jitendra Pandey, A.P.P. ------ 2/08.12.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioner and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Margomunda P.S. Case No. 47 of 2025, registered for the offences under Section 323, 376, 415 & 379 of the Indian Penal Code, pending in the Court of Learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Madhupur. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the complaint case itself shows that establishing of relationship is w.e.f. January 2023 to 2nd February 2024 and the complaint case was sworn on affidavit on 23.02.2023, whereas the complaint case was filed in the year 2024 and the same was sent to police for registration of the FIR by the learned Court. He then submits that false allegations are made of establishing relationship on pretext of marriage. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that allegations of establishing relationship is there on the false pretext of marriage. 5. Looking into the contents of the complaint case, which has been 2025:JHHC:36715 2 converted in FIR, it transpires that the relationship between the petitioner and the informant was there w.e.f. January 2023 to 2nd February 2024, whereas the complaint case was filed in the year 2024 and the FIR has been registered in 2025. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner above named is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from the date of receipt of the order and on the event of his surrender / arrest, he shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty-Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount of each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Madhupur in connection with Margomunda P.S. Case No. 47 of 2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 7. This Anticipatory Bail Application is accordingly allowed and disposed of. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 08.12.2025 R.Kumar