2025:JHHC:38569 --1-- A.B.A. No. 7425 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 7425 of 2025 ---- Chand Khan @ Phutka, aged about 24 years, S/o Sekh Shahdul @ Mafu Ansari, R/o Prem Nagar, PS – Dhansar, PO-Dhansar, District – Dhanbad, Jharkhand .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Raj Nandan Chatterjee, Advocate For the State :- Mrs. Amrita Kumari, Advocate ---- 03/22.12.2025 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 Dhansar P.S. Case No.164 of 2025, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 126(2), 127(2), 115(2), 117(2), 74, 79, 109(1), 351(2) and 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Dhanbad. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the allegation of molestation is not against the petitioner that is against one Raj Kumar. He further submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case along with other six persons and the allegations are made that the petitioner along with other was trying to find out the son of sister of the informant. He then submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.17 of the petition. He next submits that in identical 2025:JHHC:38569 --2-- A.B.A. No. 7425 of 2025 situation co-accused person has already been granted anticipatory bail in ABA No.7403 of 2025. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer and submits that the allegations are there against the petitioner of molestation. 5. Looking into the contents of the FIR it transpires that the allegation of molestation is there against one Raj Kumar and the only allegation is made that the petitioner along with five others trying to find out the son of the sister of the informant for assault and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.17 of the petition and in identical situation 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 four 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 Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Dhanbad in connection with Dhansar P.S. Case No.164 of 2025, 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/