2025:JHHC:16066 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 2767 of 2024 ------ Surendra Singh, S/o Kamru Singh, R/o Village Khargu, P.O.- Chaubey, P.S.- Chalkusha, District- Hazaribagh …… Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand …… Opposite Party ---- CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ---- For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Binod Kumar Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Arup Kumar Dey, A.P.P. ---- 03/ 16.06.2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned A.P.P. appearing for the State. 2. This anticipatory bail application under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, has been preferred by the petitioner apprehending his arrest in connection with Chalkusha P.S. Case No. 25 of 2024, for offences under Sections 341, 323, 325, 307, 379, 504 & 34 of the Indian Penal Code. The case is presently pending before the Court of Judicial Magistrate, Hazaribagh. 3. It has been alleged by the informant that under the scheme of Jal Nal Yojna by the Jharkhand Government, a tap was installed in the house of the informant on 06/05/2024. All the accused persons along with the petitioner objected the scheme and broke the tap and pipe. The informant further alleges that she tried to oppose the act but one accused namely Radhe Singh strangulated her with the intention to kill and the petitioner assaulted her with a sharp cutting weapon on the head causing severe injury. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has not committed any offence as alleged in the F.I.R. On the contrary, on the date of occurrence it was the informant, who along with her family members assaulted the wife and sons of the petitioner with regard to a land for which the petitioner had also lodged an F.I.R. prior to the F.I.R. of the informant. 5. Learned APP has vehemently opposed the prayer of the petitioner for grant of anticipatory bail and submits that the petitioner caused serious injury on the head of the informant. The petitioner also dragged the mother in law of the informant and assaulted her with rod and tore her clothes due to which she became unconscious. He submits that the injury report also suggests that the injury was grievous in nature. 2025:JHHC:16066 6. From the materials available on record and the statement of witnesses recorded during investigation, it transpires that there is direct allegation against the petitioner of assaulting. The injury report suggests that the injury caused is grievous in nature. Further, it has also come that the petitioner is evading arrest. Considering these materials and also the seriousness of the allegation, I am not inclined to grant privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Prayer for grant of anticipatory bail of the petitioner, abovenamed, is hereby rejected. 7. This anticipatory bail application is, accordingly, dismissed. (Ananda Sen, J.) Kumar/Cp-03