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2025 DAILYLAW 33516 (JHR)

PANKAJ PRASAD v. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND

A.B.A./5935/2025 · 2025-10-10

Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi

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[2025:JHHC:31467] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5935 of 2025 1. Pankaj Prasad, aged about 34 years, Son of Ashok Prasad, Resident of Dhiranganj, Satvahani, Balrampur, P.O.- Gamhariya, P.S.- Adityapur, District- Seraikella-Kharsawan, Jharkhand. 2. Pawan Prasad @ Pawan Kumar, aged about 24 years, Son of Ashok Prasad, Resident of H. No.5, Dhirajganj, P.O.- Gamharia, P.S.- Adityapur, District- Seraikella- Kharsawan, Jharkhand. ..... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand. ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Manoj Kr. Choubey, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Sanjay Kr. Srivastava, A.P.P. ------ 02/ 10.10.2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Spl. P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Adityapur P.S. Case No. 44 of 2025, registered for the offences under Sections 108/ 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, pending in the court of learned C.J.M., Seraikella. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are the neighbour of the informant and the daughter of the informant has committed suicide. He also submits that the wife of this petitioner namely, Anjali Devi @ Anjani Devi and two other accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 2833 of 2025. He further submits that one juvenile has been granted bail in Cr. Revision No. 612 of 2025. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer and submits that the allegations against the petitioners are of instigating the deceased to commit suicide. [2025:JHHC:31467] -2- 5. Considering that the petitioners are said to be the neighbour and three accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 2833 of 2025 and one juvenile has been granted bail in Cr. Revision No. 612 of 2025 and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph no. 15 of the petition; I am inclined to provide anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today, and in the event of their surrender/arrest, the petitioners, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each, with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned C.J.M., Seraikella in connection with Adityapur P.S. Case No. 44 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) RKM/- Dated: 10.10.2025