IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 519 of 2025 ------ Ajay Kumar Sahu, Aged about 27 years, son of Bindesar Sahu, Resident of Village Hendehash, P.O. & P.S. Serengdag, District –Lohardaga. … Petitioner Versus State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ------ CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR CHOUDHARY ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Aditya Banerjee, Advocate For the State : Mr. Sardhu Mahto, Addl. P.P. ------ Order No.02 Dated- 27.01.2025 Heard the parties. Apprehending his arrest, the petitioner has moved this Court for grant of privilege of anticipatory bail in connection with Serengdag P.S. Case No.4 of 2024 registered under sections 308(2)/308(3)/3(5) of the B.N.S., 2023. The Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the allegation against the petitioner is that the petitioner in furtherance of common intention with the co-accused persons went to the site of the working of the company of the informant in road construction and demanded Rs.5,00,000/- as extortion and threatened of dire consequences. It is further submitted that the allegations against the petitioner are all false and the petitioner has no criminal antecedent as has been mentioned in para-17 of the instant anticipatory bail application. It is then submitted that the petitioner undertakes to furnish sufficient security including cash security and also undertakes to cooperate with the investigation of the case and further undertakes that he will not annoy or disturb the informant in any manner during the pendency of the case nor he will go to or near the place of occurrence land or any place where the work of the company of the informant in the name and style of Bhardwaj Techno Infra Private Limited is going on, during the pendency of the case. Hence, it is submitted that the petitioner be given the privilege of anticipatory bail. Learned Addl. P.P. opposes the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail. Considering the submissions of the counsels and the fact as discussed above, I am of the opinion that it is a fit case where the abovenamed petitioner be given the privilege of anticipatory bail. Hence, in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from the date of this order, he shall be released on bail on depositing cash security of Rs.50,000/- and on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate -1st Class, Lohardaga, in connection with Serengdag P.S. Case No.4 of 2024 with the condition that the petitioner will cooperate with the investigation of the case and appear before the Investigating Officer as and when noticed by him and will furnish his mobile number and a copy of his Aadhar Card in the court below with the undertaking that he will not change his mobile number during the pendency of the case with further condition that that he will not annoy or disturb the informant in any manner during the pendency of the case and he will not go to or near the place of occurrence land or any place where the work of the company of the informant in the name and style of Bhardwaj Techno Infra Private Limited is going on, during the pendency of the case and subject to the conditions laid down under section 482 (2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Anil Kumar Choudhary, J.) Sonu/Gunjan-