2026:JHHC:13720 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 2164 of 2026 ---- 1.Abhishek Singh @ Kumar Abhishek aged about 27 years son of Anil Singh 2.Krishna Gupta, aged about 30 years, son of Madan Gupta 3.Karan Ram, aged about 28 years, son of late Shankar Ram, All residents of 4 No.Taxi Stand, Jharia, PO and PS Jharia, District Dhanbad .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mr. Ravi Prakash, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Sanat Kr. Jha, Advocate ---- 2/07.05.2026 Heard learned counsels for petitioners and for State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Jharia PS Case No.341 of 2025, for offence registered under section 126(2), 11592), 74, 303(2), 352, 351(2), 3(5) of BNS, 2023, pending in court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad. 3. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that the petitioners are the Members of the Committee of Maa Mangala Chandi Temple and the husband of the informant is the accused in the case lodged by the petitioners on 21.12.2025 being Jharia PS Case No.340 of 2025. He next submits that thereafter the present case has been lodged against the petitioners by wife of one of the accused and false allegations are made of outraging the modesty against the petitioners and 15 other persons and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph no.13 of the petition. 2026:JHHC:13720 2 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that the allegations are there of assembling at a place and outraging the modesty. 5. Considering that the petitioner are the Members of the Committee of Maa Mangala Chandi Temple and for the act of the husband of the informant, they have lodged the case being Jharia PS Case No.340 of 2025 on 21.12.2025 and thereafter the present case has been lodged by wife of one of the accused of the said case and there are general and omnibus allegations against all the accused persons, and in the attending facts and circumstances of the present case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before learned court within two weeks from today, and in event of their surrender/arrest, the petitioners, 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 the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad, in connection with Jharia PS Case No.341 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 07.05.2026 SI/