( 2025:JHHC:33334 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI B.A. No. 9058 of 2025 ------- Kinnu Toppo @ Kinnu Oraon, aged about 63 years, son of Late Charo Oraon, resident of House No.196, Patra Toli, Nalalong (Balalong), P.O. Balalong, P.S. Nagri, District Ranchi, Jharkhand. …... …. Petitioner(s) Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. …. Opp. Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMBUJ NATH -------- For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. B. M. Tripathi, Sr. Advocate Mr. Naveen Kr. Jaiswal, Advocate For the State : Mr. Pankaj Kr. Mishra, A.P.P -------- 03/ Dated 07.11.2025 Heard the parties. The petitioner has been made accused in connection with Nagri P.S. Case No. 141 of 2024, corresponding to S.T. Case No.177 of 2025, for the offence under Sections 103(1), 238 & 3(5) of B.N.S., 2023, pending in the court of Sri Pawan Kumar, learned Additional Judicial Commissioner-XII, Ranchi. Bail application of the petitioner was earlier rejected by this Court vide B.A. No. 8794/2024, by order dated 21.02.2025. On 08.07.2024, the brother of the informant Kailash Lal Thakur @ Kailu went missing. Subsequently, on the next day i.e. on 09.07.2024, his dead body was recovered from a place near a Dam. Suspicion has been raised upon the petitioner and his wife that after committing murder of the deceased, they had dumped his dead body near Dam side. During the course of investigation, one slipper of the deceased was found inside the house of the petitioner. It was submitted that the wife of the petitioner has been granted bail by a Coordinate Bench of this Court vide B.A. No. 8799/2024 and the case of the petitioner stands on similar footing. Considering the fact that similarly situated co-accused has been granted bail, I am inclined to release the petitioner, on bail. Accordingly, the petitioner, named above, is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of Sri Pawan Kumar, learned Additional Judicial Commissioner-XII, Ranchi, in connection with Nagri P.S. Case No. 141 of 2024, corresponding to S.T. Case No.177 of 2025. (Ambuj Nath, J.) November 07, 2025 BS/-