( 2025:JHHC:37797 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 6039 of 2025 Priyanka Mehta, aged about 31 years, wife of Vijay Kumar Mehta @ Viraj Mehta, resident of village-Sijhuwa, P.S. Ichak, P.O. Ichak, District- Hazaribagh, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party With A. B. A. No. 6105 of 2025 Pashupati Nath Mehta @ P.N. Mehta, Age 62 years, son of late Shyam Lal Mehta, resident of village Tikratoli, Piska Nagri, P.O. Nagri, P.S. nagri, District-Ranchi, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party With A.B.A. No.6214/2025 -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. N.K. Jaiswal, Advocate (in A.B.A. Nos. 6039/2025 and 6214/2025) Mr. Anurag Kashyap, Advocate Mr. Prem Mardi, Advocate (In A.B.A. No.6105/2025) For the State : Mr. Someshwar Roy, A.P.P. (in A.B.A. No. 6039/2025) Mr. Manoj Kr. Mishra, A.P.P. (In A.B.A. No. 6105/2025) Mr. Shailesh Kr. Sinha, A.P.P. (in A.B.A. No. 6214/2025) For the Informant : Mr. Santosh Kumar Soni, Advocate 04/ 16.12.2025: Let A.B.A. No.6214/2025 be detached from these two cases and list A.B.A. No. 6214 of 2025 on 17.12.2025. 2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State and learned counsel for the informant. 3. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Ichak P.S. Case No. 109/2025, registered under sections 318(2), 316(2), 338, 336(2), 340(2), 115(2), 126(2), 117(2), 109(1), 61(2) (a) and 3(5) BNS, 2023, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Hazaribagh. ( 2025:JHHC:37797 ) 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that elder brother of the husband of the petitioner (in A.B.A. No. 6039/2025) namely, Rajendra Kumar Mehta and husband of the petitioner namely, Vijay Kumar Mehta @ Viraj Mehta have entered into an agreement with the informant and on instruction of Rajendra Kumar Mehta an amount of Rs. 7,00,000/- has been transferred in the account of the petitioner-Priyanka Mehta and Rs. 30,00,000/- in the account of petitioner-Pashupati Nath Mehta. He further submits that the said amount has been further transferred in the account of another person on the instruction of Rajendra Kumar Mehta. He next submits that allegations are only against the petitioner-Priyanka Mehta that the said amount has been transferred in the account of petitioner-Priyanka Mehta and petitioner has also entered into an agreement with the informant. He then submits that informant has also filed Original Suit No. 208 of 2025 for recovery of amount. He further submits that a complaint case under section 138 of N.I. Act has also been filed by the informant. He further submits that the petitioner-Pashupati Nath Mehta @ P.N. Mehta is maternal uncle of Rajender Mehta and Vijay Kumar Mehta. He further submits that the present case is civil in nature. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State and informant oppose the prayer and submit that all the accused persons have connived with transferred the amount to different account and in view of that anticipatory bail may kindly be rejected. 5. Considering that elder brother of the husband of the petitioner (in A.B.A. No. 6039/2025) namely, Rajendra Kumar Mehta and husband of the petitioner namely, Vijay Kumar Mehta @ Viraj Mehta have entered into an agreement with the informant and on instruction of Rajendra Kumar ( 2025:JHHC:37797 ) Mehta the said amount has been transferred in the account of the petitioner and apart from that there is no allegation against the petitioner. Further for recovery of amount the informant has filed Original Suit No. 208 of 2025 and a complaint case under section 138 of N.I. Act has also been filed by the informant. 6. In the attending facts and circumstance of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, the above named, petitioners namely Priyanka Mehta and Pashupati Nath Mehta @ P.N. Mehta are directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender / arrest, the petitioners shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Hazaribagh, in connection with Ichak P.S. Case No. 109/2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.16.12.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-