[ 2025:JHHC:37384] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 7104 of 2025 1. Rajendra Pandit @ Rajendra Kumar aged about 28 years son of Late Ganga Pandit 2. Ranjeet Pandit aged about 32 years son of Late Ganga Pandit 3. Suraj Pandit @ Tony @ Suraj Kumar aged about 24 years son of Late Ganga Pandit 4. Bhola Pandit @ Bhola Kumar aged about 30 years son of Late Birju Pandit. 5. Nitish Pandit @ Nithish Kumar aged about 23 years son of Late Birju Pandit 6. Arun Pandit @ Arun Kumar Pandit, aged about 22 years son of Late Saryu Pandit 7 Shyam Babu Pandit @ Shyam Babu Dhikar @ Shyam @ Shyam Pandit aged about 35 years son of Late Azadi All are resident of Manjhi Basti Pahari, PO Dhansar, PS. Jharia, District-Dhanbad. ..... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Sahil, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Rakesh Kumar Sinha, A.P.P. ------ 05/ 12.12.2025 At the very outset, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioner Nos. 2 and 5 have already been apprehended, in view of that he is not pressing this petition on their behalf. 2. In view of his such submission, the prayer for anticipatory bail on behalf of petitioner Nos. 2 and 5 namely Ranjeet Pandit and Nitish Pandit @ Nithish Kumar respectively, is hereby, rejected as not [ 2025:JHHC:37384] -2- pressed. 3. Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State. 4. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Jharia P.S. Case No. 266 of 2025, registered for the offences under Sections 191(2), 191(3), 190, 126(2), 127(2), 115(2), 109(1), 132, 333, 324(5) and 352 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 3 of Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, pending in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad. 5. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that so far as petitioner Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7 are concerned, there are general and omnibus allegations of making assault upon the informant. He next submits that petitioner No. 5 Nitish Pandit @ Nithish Kumar was beaten by the informant, for that petitioner has made complaint before the police, however FIR has not been registered and the informant is the police official. He then submits that the petitioner No. 5 has also received injury, which is evident from Annuexre-3. He further submits that the simple injury has been received by the informant and the occurrence has taken place in the TOP and the FIR has been registered against 15 named and rest unknown persons. 6. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that the allegation is there in indulging in the scuffle with the police official. 7. Looking into the contents of the FIR, it transpires that there are general and omnibus allegations against all the accused persons and the injury received by the informant is simple in nature and in the scuffle, the petitioner No. 5 has also received injury, which is evident [ 2025:JHHC:37384] -3- from Annexure-3 and the petitioner No. 5 has made a complaint, however, the FIR has not been registered and the informant happened to be the police official. 8. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to provide privilege of anticipatory bail to petitioner Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7. 7. Accordingly, the petitioner Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7, named above, are hereby directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today, and in the event of their surrender/arrest, the petitioner Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7, 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, Dhanbad, in connection with Jharia P.S. Case No. 266 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated:-12.12.2025 Amitesh/-