2025:JHHC:36937 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.6976 of 2025 1. Shubhankar Gupta @ Shubhankar Kumar Gupta aged about 36 Years son of Rajendra Ram. 2. Rajesh Kandu aged 45 Years son of Jagdish Kandu. 3. Vijay Rai @ Vijay Kumar Rai @ Vijay Kr. Rai, aged about 27 Years, son of Suresh Rai. All are resident of Village Chatro P.O. Gadi Srirampur P.S.Giridih (Muffasil) District Giridih …. Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Sudhir Kr. Roy, Advocate For the State : Mr. Pankaj Kumar, P.P. ------ 2/09.12.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioners and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Giridih (Muffasil) P.S. Case No. 100/2025 under sections 191(2),190,324(3),303(2),351(2),352,308(2),308(5) Bharatiya Nayay Sanhita, pending in the court of the Learned S.D.J.M., Giridih. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that deep boring was being made in a certain place and the petitioners and others were there. He also submits that the allegations were made that the petitioners along with 40 to 50 persons have tried to stop the ongoing work of deep boring. The assembled persons asserted that due to deep boring, the place will face further water crisis, as the water crisis is already there. He next submits that so far as petitioner No.2 & 3 are concerned, they have got no criminal antecedent and one criminal antecedent is there against petitioner No.1, which is trivial in nature, in which he has been released by the police itself. 2025:JHHC:36937 2 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that they have indulged in stopping the deep boring being made by the sponge iron company. 5. Considering that there are general and omnibus allegation against the petitioners and said allegation is also made against 40 to 50 unknown persons of stopping the ongoing work of deep boring, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners above named are directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from the date of receipt of the order and on the event of their surrender / arrest, they shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty-Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount of each to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M., Giridih, in connection with Giridih (Muffasil) P.S. Case No. 100/2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 7. This Anticipatory Bail Application is accordingly allowed and disposed of. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 09.12.2025 R.Kumar