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( 2025:JHHC:38476 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 7353 of 2025
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
A.B.A. No. 7353 of 2025
1. Anil Pandey, aged about 55 years, son of Late Bacchu Pandey, resident of Saluraidih, Deoghar, P.O. & P.S. Kunda, District- Deoghar
2. Shubhash Pandey @ Chhotu Pandey, aged about 22 years, son of Anil Pandey, resident of Saluraidih, Deoghar, P.O. & P.S. Kunda, District- Deoghar
… Petitioners
-Versus-
The State of Jharkhand
… Opposite Party
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CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI
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For the Petitioners : Ms. Kehkashan Afseen, Advocate For the State
: Mr. Rajneesh Vardhan, A.P.P.
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02/22.12.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and learned counsel appearing for the State.
2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Kunda P.S. Case No.172/2025 and Section 25(9) of Arms Act, registered for the offence under Sections 309(4), 309(6) of the BNS, pending in the Court of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Deoghar.
3.
Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that there were strike of e-rickshaw puller and the petitioners’ e-rickshaw were parked on the road. She further submits that false allegations are made of snatching and assault against the petitioners. She then submits that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedents, as disclosed in paragraph 15 of this application.
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Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of snatching and assault.
5. Considering that due to strike of e-rickshaw puller, the petitioners’ e- rickshaw were parked on the road and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedents and further the alleged injury is said to be simple in nature and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend
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the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioners.
6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned Court within four weeks from today and in the event of their arrest or surrender, they shall be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Deoghar in connection with Kunda P.S. Case No.172/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 22nd December, 2025 Ajay/