( 2026:JHHC:3024 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 624 of 2026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 624 of 2026 Harindra Singh Mongia @ Harinder Singh Saluja, aged about 38 years, S/o Gunwant Singh Saluja, R/o Saluja House, Bhandardih, P.O. & P.S. Giridih Town, District Giridih, Jharkhand … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Rishu Ranjan, Advocate For the State : Mr. Rajesh Kumar, A.P.P. ----- 03/05.02.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Giridih Town P.S. Case No.79 of 2022, registered for the offence under Sections 406, 420, 467, 468, 471, 506, 120B, 34 of the Indian Penal Code, pending in the Court of the learned C.J.M., Giridih. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the allegations are made in the FIR that the land has been wrongly sold to this petitioner. He further submits that the petitioner is the purchaser of the land and that has been purchased by paying consideration amount. He then submits that the Power of Attorney holder has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court in A.B.A. No.5163 of 2025. He next submits that the persons who have given Power of Attorney for selling the land to the petitioner, have also been granted anticipatory bail by a Coordinate Bench of this Court in A.B.A. No.3979 of 2024. He also submits that the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 16 of this application. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of saying that the informant is dead ( 2026:JHHC:3024 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 624 of 2026 and the land in question has been transferred. 5. Considering that the Power of Attorney holder and the person who has given Power of Attorney have been granted anticipatory bail in the aforesaid A.B.As. and the petitioner is the purchaser and he has got no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 16 of this applciation and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of his arrest or surrender, he shall be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned C.J.M., Giridih in connection with Giridih Town P.S. Case No.79 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 5th February, 2026 Ajay/