[ 2025:JHHC:36059 ] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 6850 of 2025 Murtaj Ansari aged about 34 years son of Late Kadir Ansari Resident of village Karkari Tangratoli P.O- Sero Narkopi P.S:-Narkopi & District - Ranchi. (Jharkhand). ..... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Anukul Gaurav, Advocate. For the State : Mr. S.K. Srivastava, A.P.P. ------ 05/ 02.12.2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Narkopi Case No. 38 of 2023, registered for the offence under Sections 147,149,225,353,342,504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code, pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Ranchi. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that petitioner has earlier moved in ABA No.3376 of 2025, which was dismissed as withdrawn on 23.06.2025. He further submits that this Anticipatory Bail Petition has been filed in view of the changed circumstances, as other co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail in ABA No.4704 of 2025 by order dated 25.08.2025. He also submits ABA No.4704 of 2025 has been allowed considering that three persons have been granted anticipatory bail by the Coordinate Bench in ABA No.2236 of 2025. 4. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that that the petitioner has earlier moved anticipatory bail, which was dismissed as withdrawn and there is no [ 2025:JHHC:36059 ] -2- change in the circumstances, in spite of that, second ABA has been filed. 5. In view of the above and considering that earlier the petitioner has withdrawn ABA No.3376 of 2025 on 23.06.2025 and other co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail on 25.08.2025 in ABA No.4704 of 2025, as such, there is change in circumstance for filing the second anticipatory bail petition. It further transpires that there are general and omnibus allegations against 70 to 80 persons and the allegations are made that those persons were agitating for taking away Sarfaraz Ansari from the custody of police, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, named above, is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner, named above, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty- five thousand), with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Ranchi, in connection with Narkopi Case No. 38 of 2023, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated:-02.12.2025 Amitesh/-