[ 2025:JHHC:36961] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 7003 of 2025 Pramod Kumar, aged about 33 years, son of Vinod Kumar Saw, resident of Village and P.O.-Saphi, P.S.- Domchanch, District-Koderma. ..... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Randhir Kumar, Advocate. For the State : Mrs. Bandana Sinha, A.P.P. ------ 03/ 09.12.2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Telaiya P.S. Case No. 258 of 2023, registered for the offences under Sections 364, 341, 323, 302, 201, 34 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code, pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is not named in the FIR and his name has come on the basis of confessional statement of the co-accused Suraj Kumar Rana. He submits that the said Suraj Kumar Rana has been allowed the regular bail. He then submits that the trial of the other accused persons has already been commenced and the petitioner is also intended to join the trial. He next submits that there is no allegation and evidence against the petitioner to suggest that the petitioner has assaulted the deceased. He submits that in the medical evidence, it has come that the death has occurred due to strangulation and not from any beating or physical assault or injury, as has been narrated in the confessional statement, which is the contrary confessional statement. He also submits that the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent and [ 2025:JHHC:36961] -2- disclosure to that effect has been made in para-15 and further in the similar circumstance, the other co-accused has already been provided the privilege of anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 6144 of 2025 by this court. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided the privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that the name of the petitioner has come on the basis of confessional statement. 5. Considering that the name of the petitioner has come on the basis of confessional statement and in the similar circumstance, the other co-accused has already been provided the privilege of anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 6144 of 2025 by this court and further the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para-15 of the petition, I am inclined to provide privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, named above, is hereby directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today, and in the event of his surrender/arrest, the petitioner, 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma, in connection with Telaiya P.S. Case No. 258 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated:-09.12.2025 Amitesh/-