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2025 DAILYLAW 40203 (JHR)

SUMESHWAR NAPIT v. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND

A.B.A./7414/2025 · 2025-12-22

Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi

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( 2025:JHHC:38541 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 7414 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 7414 of 2025 1. Sumeshwar Napit, aged about 49 years, son of Late Sital Napit 2. Dashrath Napit @ Dashrath Kumar Napit, aged about 25 years, son of Sumeshwar Napit All above petitioner nos. 1 and 2 are resident of Village Kuchiyagarha, P.O. & P.S. Devipur, District- Deoghar, Jharkhand 3. Bobi Devi, aged about 36 years, daughter of Karu Napit, resident of Village Manikabad, P.O. & P.S. Hiradih, District- Giridih, Jharkhand … Petitioners -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioners : Mr. Lalit Yadav, Advocate For the State : Mr. Rakesh Ranjan, A.P.P. ----- 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 Madhupur P.S. Case No.129/2025, registered for the offence under Sections 96/3(5) of the BNS, pending in the Court of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhupur. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the allegation is made in the FIR against Birendra Napit that he has taken the girl to Chennai along with his friend Rakesh Pandey. He further submits that the allegation is not against the petitioners. He then submits that these petitioners are happened to be family members of Birendra Napit. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the petitioners are family members of Birendra Napit against whom the allegation is there of taking the girl to Chennai. 5. Looking into the contents of the FIR, it appears that the main allegation ( 2025:JHHC:38541 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 7414 of 2025 is there against Birendra Napit and the allegation is not there against these petitioners. The petitioners are happened to be family members of the said Birendra Napit. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhupur in connection with Madhupur P.S. Case No.129/2025, 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/