( 2025:JHHC:31064 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 5845 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5845 of 2025 Sunny Kumar Bhardwaj @ Sunny Kumar, aged about 23 years, son of Ramjanam Bhardwaj, resident of Bhatiya Basti, Near Shiv Mandir, Adityapur, P.S. Adityapur, P.O. Adityapur, District- Seraikella Kharsawan … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Vikash Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Jitendra Pandey, A.P.P. ----- 04/08.10.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Adityapur P.S. Case No.201 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 115(2)/117(2)/303(2)/109 and 3(5) of the BNS, 2023, pending in the Court of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Seraikella. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is not named in the FIR and the name of the petitioner has been taken by one of the hotel staff, where the scuffle took place. He further submits that petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph 13 of this application. He then submits that the co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court in A.B.A. No.5679 of 2025, vide order dated 24.09.2025. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that petitioner’s name has been disclosed by the staff of the hotel where the incident occurred. 5. Considering that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent and ( 2025:JHHC:31064 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 5845 of 2025 petitioner is not named in the FIR and the co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail in the aforesaid A.B.A. and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of his arrest or surrender, he 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Seraikella in connection with Adityapur P.S. Case No. 201 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 8th October, 2025 Ajay/