2025:JHHC:33366 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI B. A. No. 9994 of 2025 ----- Sunil Kumar @ Anil Ram, S/o Ramful Ram, R/o Village-Sabno, P.O. & P.S.-Simariya, Dist.-Chatra … …. Petitioner Versus State of Jharkhand … …. Opp. Party ----- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GAUTAM KUMAR CHOUDHARY ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Manoj Kr. Choubey, Advocate For the State : Mr. Shree Prakash Jha, A.P.P. ----- Oral Order 02 / Dated : 07. 11.2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner named above has been made accused in connection with Simariya P.S. Case No. 166 of 2022 (S.T. No. 48 of 2023) for the offence registered under Sections 302 & 120B of the Indian Penal Code, pending in the court of learned Additional Sessions Judge-II, Chatra. Earlier the prayer for bail of this petitioner was rejected by this Court on merit vide order dated 15.09.2023 passed in B.A. No. 5710 of 2023 with observation to expedite the trial and conclude the same preferably within nine months from the date of framing of charge. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the charge was framed on 13.02.2023 and all twelve witnesses have been examined in this case, still the case has not been disposed of awaiting the report from the Forensic Sciences Laboratory, Ranchi from 03.06.2024. It is argued, and rightly so, that the accused cannot be kept in custody ad infinitum awaiting the receipt of Forensic Sciences Laboratory report. Learned counsel for the State has opposed the prayer for bail. Considering the stage of trial when all the witnesses have been examined, I am not inclined to release the petitioner on bail, at this stage. Accordingly, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is rejected again. However, the Trial Court is directed to conclude the trial within two months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. If the trial is not concluded within this period, the petitioner will be at liberty to renew his prayer for bail. (Gautam Kumar Choudhary, J.) AKT/Satayendra Uploaded on 10.11.2025