( 2025:JHHC:32039 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 6005 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 6005 of 2025 Sourav Kumar Kasera @ Chhotu, aged about 27 years, son of Suresh Pd. Kasera, resident of Panjabi Mohalla, P.O. Katras, P.S. Katras, District- Dhanbad (Jharkhand) … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Suraj Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Shashi Kumar Verma, A.P.P. ----- 04/16.10.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Gomoh G.R.P.S. P.S. Case No.17 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 304, 317(5), 3(5) of the BNS, pending in the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate, Railway, Dhanbad. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is not named in the FIR. He further submits that the name of the petitioner has come on the confessional statement of the apprehended co- accused. He then submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 17 of this application. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the petitioner is involved in such type of offence. 5. Considering that the petitioner is not named in the FIR and his name has come on the confessional statement of the apprehended co-accused and he has got no criminal antecedent and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. ( 2025:JHHC:32039 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 6005 of 2025 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 Judicial Magistrate, Railway, Dhanbad in connection with Gomoh G.R.P.S. P.S. Case No.17 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: 16th October, 2025 Ajay/