[2026:JHHC:1584] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 298 of 2026 Aniket Prasad @ Aniket Kumar @ Aniket Kumar Prasad, aged about 18 years, son of Bikram Kumar Prasad Turi, resident of Kashidih, P.O. & P.S.-Sakchi, Town-Jamshedpur, District East Singhbhum. ..... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Vikas Kumar, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Suraj Deo Munda, A.P.P. ------ 05/ 21.01.2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Bistupur P.S. Case No. 139 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 126 (2), 115 (2), 118(1), 109, 352, 351 (2) and 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamshedpur. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a student of Class-XI and pursuing his study in DAV Public School, Bistupur. He next submits that the altercation took place, as the petitioner used to talk with the sister of the informant. He further submits that the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para-14 of the petition. He then submits that there is no eyewitness to the occurrence and only on the basis of suspicion, the name of the petitioner has taken in the FIR. 4. Learned A.P.P. has opposed the prayer and submits that the allegation of assault is there. 5. Considering that the petitioner is a student of Class-XI and [2026:JHHC:1584] -2- pursuing his study in DAV Public School, Bistupur and the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para-14 of the petition and the only allegation is made that the petitioner used to talk with the sister of the informant, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, named above, is directed to surrender before the learned court within four weeks from today and in the event of her surrender / arrest, the petitioner, named above, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty-five thousand), with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamshedpur, in connection with Bistupur P.S. Case No. 139 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated:-21.01.2026 Amitesh/-