( 2025:JHHC:37900 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 7177 of 2025 Shiv Shankar Kumar @ Shibu Mahto @ Shiv Shankar, aged about 30 years, son of Kartik Napit @ Kartik Thakur, resident of village Mirjapur Post Office- Deopur and P.S. Jasidih, District-Deoghar, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Satyanshu Shubham, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Kumari Rashmi, A.P.P. 02/ 17.12.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Barkagaon P.S. Case No.133 of 2021, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 147, 148, 149, 307, 323, 341, 342, 337, 338, 435, 332, 333, 353, 427, 269, 270, 290 and 511 of Indian Penal Code, Sections, 2, 3 and 4 of Jharkhand Epidemic Act and Section 51 of National Disaster Management Act pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Hazaribagh. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that petitioner is named in the FIR and the FIR is registered against 55 named accused persons and 100 unknown persons. He further submits that the allegations are made that all were assembled at the particular place and has indulged in violence and pelted stones upon the police force and the officials. He then submits that in identical situation co-accused persons have already been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. Nos.8326 of 2022, 4218 of 2022, 7122 of 2021 and A.B.A. No. 7142 of 2025. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer and submits that large number of persons were assembled and they have ( 2025:JHHC:37900 ) indulged in violence with the officials. 5. Considering that in identical situation co-accused persons have already been granted anticipatory bail in the aforesaid A.B.As. and in the course of argument it has been pointed out that petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.12 of the petition and there are general and omnibus allegation against all the accused persons, I am inclined to provide anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, are 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 Judicial Magistrate First Class, Hazaribagh in connection with Barkagaon P.S. Case No.133 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Dt.17.12.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-