2026:JHHC:1278 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 203 of 2026 ---- 1.Md. Sadik, aged about 65 years, son of late Alijan Mian 2.Imtiyaj @ Intaj Ansari, aged about 43 years son of Md. Sadik 3.Md. Tabarak Ansari, aged about 22 years, son of Md. Sadik, All residents of Village Bholapur, PO Remba, PS Hirodih, District Giridih, Jharkhand .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner2 :- Mr. Sajid Younus, Advocate For the State :- Mr. S.K. Mahto, Advocate ---- 2/19.01.2026 Heard learned counsels for petitioners and for State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Hirodih PS Case No.63 of 2024, for offence registered under sections 147, 341, 323, 324, 325, 307, 379, 354, 504, 506, 448 of IPC, pending in court of learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Giridih. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners at the outset seeks permission to withdraw the prayer of anticipatory bail so far as the petitioner no.3 is concerned and he next submits that the petitioner no.3 will move before the learned court concerned by way of filing regular bail petition. 4. Learned counsel for State has got no objection for same. 5. Permission is accorded. 6. In view of such submission, the prayer for anticipatory bail in respect of petitioner no.3 is, hereby, rejected with liberty to move before the learned court concerned. 7. Learned counsel for petitioners further submits that the 2026:JHHC:1278 2 informant and the petitioners’ side are agnets and there are case and counter case between the parties and when the Panchayati was made for partition of the land, the said occurrence took place. 8. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that the allegations of assault and molestation is also there. 9. Looking to the contents of the FIR, it transpires that there is direct allegation of assault upon Manowar Ansari and allegation of molestation is there against Kurban Ansari and Tabarak Ansari, and as such, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner nos.1 and 2. 10. Accordingly, petitioner nos.1 and 2, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before learned court within three weeks from today, and in event of their surrender/arrest, petitioner nos.1 and 2, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each, with two sureties of like amount each, to satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Giridih, in connection with Hirodih PS Case No.63 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. 11. This petition, being A.B.A. No.203 of 2026, is partly allowed, in aforesaid terms. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 19.01.2026 SI/