Neutral Citation No. ( 2025:JHHC:26429-DB ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI Cr. A (D.B.) No. 468 of 2025 --------- Ranjita Kumari, aged about 39 years, W/o Jay Minz, R/o Village-Shakarpur, P.O. & P.S.-Netaji Subhash Place, Sitrict-North West Delhi PIN-110034 … … Appellant Versus The State of Jharkhand … … Respondent --------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RONGON MUKHOPADHYAY HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRADEEP KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ---------- For the Appellant : Mr. Rajesh Kumar Mahata, Advocate For the Res. State : Mr. Pankaj Kumar Mishra, A.P.P. ----------- 05/Dated: 1st September, 2025 1. Heard Mr. Rajesh Kumar Mahata, learned counsel for the appellant and Mr. Pankaj Kumar Mishra, learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. This appeal is directed against the order dated 16.01.2025 passed in A.B.P. No.12 of 2025 corresponding to A.H.T.U. Gumla P.S. Case No.05 of 2023 by learned Sessions Judge, Gumla, whereby and whereunder the prayer for anticipatory bail of the appellant has been rejected. 3. It has been alleged that on 18.01.2023, the daughter of the informant and his niece went missing and later on, on enquiry it came to knowledge that the daughter of the informant was taken by Bhagtain Shanti Tana Bhagat to Delhi in the name of providing a job. The informant had also come to know that several other persons have also been taken by Bhagtain Shanti Tana Bhagat to Delhi for providing a job. 4. Submission has been advanced by learned counsel for the appellant that the appellant does not run a placement agency. It has been submitted that the appellant is a social worker and she does not have any concern with the allegations, which have been made. Neutral Citation No. ( 2025:JHHC:26429-DB ) 2 5. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the appellant and specifically averred to the case diary while submitting that the victims had stated that they were taken to the placement agency of the appellant and were kept confined in a room. Some of the other witnesses also, who have been the victims have also taken the name of appellant. 6. The statement of the victims, therefore, clearly reveals about the appellant being an integral part in the network of human trafficking, which is revealed from the acts of Bhagtain Shanti Tana Bhagat, on account of which, the victims were taken to the placement agency of the appellant from where some were recovered whereas some were already sent to Rajasthan. 7. It appears that on 12.08.2025, on the submission of the learned counsel for the appellant that the appellant does not run a placement agency and is involved in social counseling based on which prayer was made to adjourn the matter so that supplementary affidavit may be filed bringing on record the documents indicating the activity of the appellant with respect to the social counseling, this case was adjourned. 8. Today, Mr. Rajesh Kumar Mahata, learned counsel for the appellant has submitted that the appellant does not run a placement agency and there is no document on record to be suggestive of the fact that the appellant is involved in social counseling. 9. It would thus seem, though there has been consistent denial on the part of the learned counsel for the appellant with respect to running a placement agency but the evidence of the victims clearly reveals about the existence of the placement agency and apart from the fact that no documents have been brought on record to suggest that the appellant is Neutral Citation No. ( 2025:JHHC:26429-DB ) 3 involved in social counseling, we are not inclined to interfere in the impugned order dated 16.01.2025 passed by learned Sessions Judge, Gumla in connection with A.B.P. No.12 of 2025 arising out of A.H.T.U Gumla P.S. No.5 of 2023 and consequently, we dismiss this appeal. (Rongon Mukhopadhyay, J.) (Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, J.) Pappu/-