2025:JHHC:38619 --1-- A.B.A. No. 7454 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 7454 of 2025 ---- Suraj Kumar, aged about 29 years, S/o Awdhesh Saw @ Awadhesh Saw, R/o House No.120, Dundibagh, PO and PS – Bokaro Steel City and District - Bokaro .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Ankit Burman, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Ajay Kr. Pathak, Advocate ---- 04/22.12.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as well as the learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Sector 12 P.S. Case No.136 of 2024(S), for the alleged offences registered under Sections 118(2), 109 and 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 27 of Arms Act pending in the Court of learned District and Additional Sessions Judge-I, Bokaro. 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 which has come in paragraph Nos.43 and 50 of the case diary. He then submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.11 of the petition and in the case diary that aspect is also silent. He next submits that in identical situation one co-accused person has already been granted anticipatory bail in 2025:JHHC:38619 --2-- A.B.A. No. 7454 of 2025 ABA No.5424 of 2025. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer and submits that the name of the petitioner has come on the confessional statement. 5. Considering that the name of the petitioner has come on the confessional statement and that has come in paragraph Nos.43 and 50 of the case diary and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.11 of the petition and the petitioner is not named in the FIR and in identical situation one co- accused person has already been granted anticipatory bail in the aforesaid ABA, I am inclined to provide anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, 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), with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned District and Additional Sessions Judge-I, Bokaro in connection with Sector 12 P.S. Case No.136 of 2024(S), subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated 22.12.2025 Sangam/