( 2025:JHHC:31592 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5990 of 2025 Anupam Raj, aged about 39 years, son of Shiv Kumar Prashad, resident of House No. 149, Adarsh Colony, P.O. Narayanpur, P.S. Chas, District-Bokaro, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Rajiv Kumar Karan, Advocate For the State : Mr. Tarun Kumar, A.P.P. 02/ 13.10.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Sector-IV P.s. Case No. 72 of 2025, registered under sections 326(g) and 3 (5) of BNS, 2023, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Bokaro. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that alleged occurrence of setting fire in the shop of the informant took place on 17.06.2025 wherein F.I.R. has been registered on 03.07.2025 after delay of 17 days. He further submits that petitioner is having shop nearby shop of the informant and there is business rivalry between the petitioner and informant and in view of that false allegation is made. He further submits that petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 12 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 I.O has stated that there is business rivalry and the petitioner has set the shop of the informant on fire. 5. Considering that alleged occurrence is dated 17.06.2025 ( 2025:JHHC:31592 ) wherein F.I.R. has been registered on 03.07.2025 after delay of 17 days and it has been pointed out that there is business rivalry between the petitioner and informant and petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 12 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 Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Bokaro, in connection with Sector-IV P.s. Case No. 72 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.13.10.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-