Neutral Citation No. ( 2025:JHHC:23927 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI B.A. No. 2420 of 2025 ------ Pankaj Kumar @ Pankaj Prasad @ Lathra, aged about 28 years, S/o. Baleshwar Saw, R/o. Vill.- Tarwadih, P.O. & P.S.- Latehar, Dist. Latehar, Jharkhand. … … Petitioner -Versus - The State of Jharkhand ... … Opposite Party ------ CORAM: - HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMBUJ NATH ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Sudhir Kumar Mahto, A.P.P. ------ 05/14.08.2025 I.A. No. 8595 of 2025 Learned counsel for the petitioner seeks permission to withdraw this interlocutory application. 2. Prayer is allowed. 3. Accordingly, this interlocutory application is dismissed as withdrawn. B.A. No. 2420 of 2025 4. Heard the parties. 5. The petitioner has been made accused in connection with Latehar P.S. Case No. 171/2024, for the offences registered under Sections 190, 191(2), 191(3), 109(1), 132 & 118(1) of the B.N.S. 2023 and Sections 25(1-B)(a), 27 & 35 Arms Act and Section 17 of the C.L.A. Act, pending in the Court of learned C.J.M., Latehar. 6. On 07.10.2024 at about 8:00 A.M., Latehar police received confidential information that extremists were extracting levy from contractors near Bokakhand, Latehar. The police party rushed to the place of occurrence and on seeing the police party, extremists started firing which resulted in counter firing and two of the police personnel got injured. 7. It was submitted that petitioner is not named in the F.I.R. It was further submitted that name of the petitioner has transpired in confession of co-accused. 8. Learned A.P.P. has opposed the prayer for bail of the petitioner but does not dispute the aforesaid facts. 9. In view of the submissions made above, 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 learned C.J.M., Latehar in connection with Latehar P.S. Case No. 171/2024. (Ambuj Nath, J.) Rahul/-